# What would the night sky look like from another planet? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 25, 2012, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-the-night-sky-look-like-from-another-planet/616773 "2012-03-25T16:47:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Anise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/anise/32/21721_2.png) [@Anise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anise)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2012, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-the-night-sky-look-like-from-another-planet/616773/21 "2012-03-28T01:28:43Z")
> [@Reply](#): > > That’d be a really neat scene. I’ve never seen the stars from underwater, much less through water and ice and a thin atmosphere with water vapor and ice crystals. I wonder how they’ll sparkle. I don’t know, but I’m getting some great ideas here. Thanks to everybody! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Lazlo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lazlo/32/9678_2.png) [@Lazlo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lazlo)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2012, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-the-night-sky-look-like-from-another-planet/616773/22 "2012-03-28T03:47:28Z")
> [@Anise](#): > > Oh, this fandom doesn’t expect any SF content at ALL. It’s just a bit in the ending, when the two characters had to enter the wheel of birth and rebirth and ended up being reincarnated on Enceladus together five hundred years later, having finally made up for their sins. 🙂 Anyway, what great pics!! You should put a spoiler tag around something like that! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Reply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reply/32/15952_2.png) [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2013, 8:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-the-night-sky-look-like-from-another-planet/616773/23 "2013-11-26T08:33:18Z")
So, Anise, did you end up writing [Europa Report](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europa_Report)? A bunch of people go to one of Jupiter’s moons and find thermal activity and warm oceans. They send a sub beneath the ocean, look through its magic camera, and eventually they find… a giant octopus. There’s even a [scene where they gaze at the night sky](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-00Ka4phTP4Y/UmWOR13dC4I/AAAAAAAAjUU/klI2CE_Ocz8/s1600/europa4.png) in the fashion you describe. And then they all “enter the cycle of rebirth”, as you say. Someone stole your script! ---
**Author:** ![Anise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/anise/32/21721_2.png) [@Anise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anise)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2013, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-the-night-sky-look-like-from-another-planet/616773/24 "2013-11-26T22:19:30Z")
Well, you never know who’s spying on you (looks around shiftily) NOTHING TO SEE HERE, NSA. MOVE ALONG. Thanks for the link! ---
**Author:** ![ZenBeam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3ab097/32.png) [@ZenBeam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZenBeam)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2013, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-the-night-sky-look-like-from-another-planet/616773/25 "2013-11-27T00:36:37Z")
> [@Reply](#): > > In that picture? I have no idea 🙂 Here’s another shot with Earth targeted in the lower left: > [http://oi41.tinypic.com/1e2k51.jpg](http://oi41.tinypic.com/1e2k51.jpg) > > That bright star next to Earth is our Sun. Is the small spot just to the left of the Earth the Moon? ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2013, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-the-night-sky-look-like-from-another-planet/616773/26 "2013-11-27T00:41:33Z")
Probably. The Moon should be visible, at about that brightness, and it looks like it’s at least roughly in the right plane. It’s still possible that the actual Moon is hidden and that’s just a coincidental background star, of course. ---
**Author:** ![Reply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reply/32/15952_2.png) [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2013, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-the-night-sky-look-like-from-another-planet/616773/27 "2013-11-27T01:21:55Z")
> [@ZenBeam](#): > > Is the small spot just to the left of the Earth the Moon? I honestly don’t remember (this is a zombie from last year), but if you download Stellarium and input the same parameters (look at Earth from Enceladus) at the same time, you should be able to click on that dot to figure out what it is. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-the-night-sky-look-like-from-another-planet/616773.md?page=1)