You make a good point about the perpendicular orbit. Unfortunately that's just the way this moon was programmed in Space Engine and to my knowledge that can't be changed (I'll check that though).
I'll probably alter the moon's orbit to make it more realistically stable. This would affect the...
Thanks, Durakken! That's my plan eventually - to model the system in an engine and see how it works. But it's really helpful having more knowledgeable people on this subject giving me a bit of warning on what to look out for.
Incidentally that video was made on a free piece of software called...
Thanks for your input! So you don't think it would be possible to have, for example, a gas giant roughly the same as Jupiter approximately 1.3AU from a Sun fairly similar to our own?
Here's what I have been tinkering with as a basic idea/premise, so I can get critique. A gas giant approximately...
Thanks again for all this great help! I don't need to be too scientific about everything but those equations will really help and it's just good to know I'd be creating a system that wasn't completely incongruent with physical law.
That's interesting regarding the tidal locking issue - some...
Thanks so much for your feedback/comments!
I presumed it was common for moons to become tidally locked to their planets within a few million years? Certainly before there was a serious chance of sentient life evolving at least?
Sorry phinds, I realized that was a bad way of phrasing it!
As in, if you have multiple moons in the planetary system, one of those moons would be the inner moon on an orbit closer to the planet and the other moon would be on the next orbit out - so not immediately next to each other on the...
Hey Guys,
Very new to this forum - signed up as it seemed it might be possible to get some answers and advice as I'm designing a world (actually two worlds - two exomoons) and want to try and pay at least some attention to the constraints and realities of physics, as much as possible! My...