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Old 09-26-2013, 10:39 PM   #16
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Default Re: Scope and format of world data sheets in SF

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Originally Posted by Peter Knutsen View Post
A minor tangent, but some years ago, I did a tiny bit of worldbuilding for my space opera setting, and I arrived at the conclusion that for a Human-habitable planet orbiting an F-type star, i.e. radiating much more energy than our Sun and therefore needing the planet to orbit father away, it would create the effect of shadows being more sharply defined, less blurred.

That's a minor but interesting visual effect.
So it is. It depends on the apparent diameter of the sun, which I have included on the sheet.
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