How do they know that Tatooineâ(TM)s stars were close to each other? Thereâ(TM)s shots of them both in the sky at the same time, but they could be a huge distance apart in the depth axis, and just different sizes.
A planet could orbit both stars at the same time, or just one.
If you orbit just one of them, the proximity to the other will change as you orbit your main star. That should produce dramatic income light changes that could generate very unpleasant weather.
To minimize that changes the far star must be too far and be too big to have the same appearance. And be a yellow Star.
Because the close Star can't be a M star (the smallest) because they are red, and very cold, so you must be very close to them (so appear gigant in the Sky, no matter it would be way smaller than our sun) to be in the golden zone of the star (where water is liquid)
Sooooo... very, very unlikely.
The obvious posibility are just two close G or K Stars, very similar each other, the planet orbit both, and the watcher be in a moderate latitude. On this configuration, you could have the same view than Luke.
How do they know? (Score:2)
How do they know that Tatooineâ(TM)s stars were close to each other? Thereâ(TM)s shots of them both in the sky at the same time, but they could be a huge distance apart in the depth axis, and just different sizes.
Re:How do they know? (Score:1)
Very unlikely.
A planet could orbit both stars at the same time, or just one.
If you orbit just one of them, the proximity to the other will change as you orbit your main star. That should produce dramatic income light changes that could generate very unpleasant weather.
To minimize that changes the far star must be too far and be too big to have the same appearance. And be a yellow Star.
Because the close Star can't be a M star (the smallest) because they are red, and very cold, so you must be very close to them (so appear gigant in the Sky, no matter it would be way smaller than our sun) to be in the golden zone of the star (where water is liquid)
Sooooo... very, very unlikely.
The obvious posibility are just two close G or K Stars, very similar each other, the planet orbit both, and the watcher be in a moderate latitude.
On this configuration, you could have the same view than Luke.