"ryan constantine" <rco### [at] yahoocom> wrote in message
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| good point, but i hadn't thought about where he is.  and isn't one sun
| red?  although it doesn't show up in the lighting in the movies.  i
| never noticed two shadows for anything in the movies.  at some points in
| the yearly orbit, one sun probably eclipses the other.

They were both yellow G type suns like our solar system Sun.  The reddened
one you're thinking of was lower on the horizon than the other.  Oddly
enough the closer zoom view shown after that one has them both as very much
yellow and no longer a red one.
I'm going by the movie though, not the story itself so I could be way off.
They should have orbited each other at a rate of around several days not in
months or years.  So the planet orbit to make for a eclipse isn't needed but
that would have been the only possibility for a eclipse if the two suns
revolved in a plane not on the planets ecliptic of course.

Bob

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