What do the planets look like in daytime without any sun?

Question

For amateur astronomers who usually look at the planets at night because the sunlight is reflected on them,such as Mars that looks red or orange and Jupiter and Saturn looks yellow. What do the planets look like in daytime without any sun?

Answer 1

Planets look pretty much the same. Contrast is different because the planet is seen against the very bright sky. We counter for that by using yellow filters (it cuts the blue of Earth's sky without reducing the yellowish light that the planet reflects from the Sun).



Of course, if a planet is visible in the middle of the night, then it will be below the horizon in the middle of the day, so we can't see that one.



But as their apparent position gets around 90 degrees from the Sun (quadrature) we can see them quite well. At 90 degrees from the Sun, polarizing filters can reduce a lot of the sky's brightness without affecting the planet's brightness.



Some details are a lot more difficult to see (for example, Mars still looks reddish, but it is more difficult to make out the polar caps -- at least in my telescope).

Answer 2

If the sun is not shining on the part of the planet we can see (we can see only its night side) that means the sun is behind it - it is between us and the sun - so we can't see it because of the sun's glare.

Only planets closer to the sun can get between us and the sun (for obvious reasons) - that's only Mercury and Venus.

The planets further out will always present mostly sunlit sides toward us, for the same reason.



In the daytime, we can't see any planets at all. Except for Earth.

Answer 3

Daytime without sun? How's that possible?



Anyway, I'm not an astronomer, but I'm pretty sure that without sunlight, we can't see the planets at all.

Answer 4

real? no twelfth planet? we don't actually have a 9th. on the threshold of Earth? no Nibiru began off as a foul translation of previous Sumerian texts. We did not have many texts to artwork from and extremely few human beings had studied them (it is not as though there have been Sumerian English dictionaries). some guy slapped jointly a translation and mixed it up with a number of his interpretations of the Bible. it is the place the legend began (there have been some Sumerian legends jumbled jointly -- they too had legends). Now that we've extra Sumerian texts to artwork from (and extra experts with adventure) all of us understand that the call Nibiru, whilst utilized to Sumerian astronomy, particularly meant the planet we call Jupiter. The legend that got here from the 1st translation replaced into: the planet comes on the threshold human beings each 3700 years (or so), the inhabitants have been our creators and we are their slaves, meant to dig gold for them. of course, all that disappeared whilst extra useful translations have been made out of the unique records. the unique translator had predicted the return for 2085. he's the guy who known because it the twelfth planet, from words he thought have been in the Sumerian checklist -- and that they might have been there in a manner: what they referred to as a planet would be distinctive from what we now call a planet. Even the Greek astronomers (lots nearer to us in historic past) defined the sunlight and the Moon as planets (aster planetes: wandering stars). whilst hoaxers desperate to have the fictional planet come our way for 2012, they replaced its orbital parameters (project-free to do for a fictitious planet). Even the unique translator (who nonetheless believes in Nibiru and its inhabitants) won't be able to understand why every physique would have self assurance that Nibiru ought back in 2012. He redid his calculations and at present introduced that even 2085 is merely too early. Nibiru would not return till a minimum of the year 3000 (perhaps slightly after). No intense scientist believes in it. not for 2012, not for 2085 and not for the 4th millenium.

Answer 5

You speak a variety of English that I'm not familiar with. Here in America, "daytime" cannot mean "without sun". You'll need to explain just what you mean.

Answer 6

In order to see their needs to be light entering the eye. Because of this it is impossible to see anything without a light source.

Answer 7

Dark. Try going going outside your house after sundown.

Answer 8

amateur astronomers? huh! excuse me but everyone here is professional!



i mean just look at how professional and tricky ur question is!

Answer 9

daytime without sun? hows that done then?

Answer 10

wat??