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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Imret" data-source="post: 1925058" data-attributes="member: 991">As much as I'm not here to pimp sci-fi, Pitch Black is set on a moon orbiting a gas giant (IIRC)...there are some fine shots of what a gas giant looks like in the sky of a world. But basically, foremost...it's huge. Consider that with a (relatively) slight increase in mass, Jupiter could collapse into a star. This would be a bad thing for life in the system, obviously, but it's a handy apocalypse metaplot if you ever need one.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />  But, getting back to the question, you can only see about a quarter of the gas giant at any one time in the sky in Pitch Black - it's larger than the moon in an exponential way, so unless the moon is on a far distant orbit from the giant, you'd probably never see all of it in the sky at once.For the specifics of the gas giant, check out some good NASA photos of our resident gas giants and run from there. It could be any color you want, but the effect is more or less close to a giant marble hanging over your planet. Strips of color, planet-sized storms that look like swirls of color...hell, it's your gas giant. Could look like anything you want.Of course, if you want some serious complexity, you could have planetoids orbiting your moon as it orbits a gas giant, or simply other moons of the gas giant that are visible every so often from the inhabited moon.</blockquote>

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