Where was the Bajoran Sun?

[Photon]

It should have been evident in at least one view of the station and or Bajor.

I blv we saw it 1x when Changeling Bashir was gonna detonate the bomb-laden ruanabout in the sun and Kira saved the day.

Its just a minor carp, but one that shoulda been better thought through.

 

[Demonland]

Agreed. We should have seen shots of the sun in some of the exterior shots of the station.

Here is a link to a map of the Bajoran Solar system and shows where DS9 sits in relation to the other planets and the Sun.

http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/File:Bajoran_system.gif

 

[Photon]

Agreed. We should have seen shots of the sun in some of the exterior shots of the station.

Here is a link to a map of the Bajoran Solar system and shows where DS9 sits in relation to the other planets and the Sun.

http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/File:Bajoran_system.gif

Nice find and I was right. The Comet Alpha, I always wondered if it was an orbital comet or a rogue-now I know.

 

[TeutonicNights]

The Past Prologue trailer

 

[Kai Winn]

the map seems to indicate ds9, and therefore the wormhole both orbit the sun. now why in hell would a wormhole with two fixed exits in space do that?

 

[snakespeare]

I don't see the wormhole in that LCARS image. Could this image be from before the space station was moved?

 

[Lindley]

the map seems to indicate ds9, and therefore the wormhole both orbit the sun. now why in hell would a wormhole with two fixed exits in space do that?

There's no such thing as a fixed point in space. Everything is relative. In order to stay with the Bajoran system, the wormhole terminus would need to at least be orbiting the galactic black hole at the same rate as the Bajoran sun; given that, there's no reason it couldn't be orbiting the Bajoran sun as well.

 

[DS9forever]

The Bajoran sun was seen in "Progress" in an establishing shot of Jeraddo.

 

[Timo]

Regarding the apparent orbiting of the wormhole terminus, we learn in "Destiny" that the wormhole exhibits a gravitational attraction at least when open. If it does so even when closed, it's only natural that it should obey the same sort of orbital mechanics as any physical object that possesses mass...

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

The Bajoran Sun? I didn't know they only had one daily paper.

 

[mattyhugh]

The Bajoran Sun? I didn't know they only had one daily paper.

(insert rimshot here)

 

[SonicRanger]

Where was the sun? Simple. In the direction of the lit side of the station.

 

[Timo]

...Which raises the question of what was producing the tail of the comet in the opening credits. The pan shows the station lit from the left, but the comet's tail isn't pointing to the right - it's pointing towards the camera.

Of course, it need not be a "real" tail. Perhaps this little snowball just got kicked by the rocket exhaust of a passing ship, and was spewing snowflakes as the result of the temporary acceleration, not because of sunlight pressure.

But yeah, the point is a good one. The station was never really shown from the shadow side, because apparently that wouldn't have been a cool shot (even if Babylon 5 did it frequently) - so of course the sun would be to one side or the other of the station, and thus of the camera. Those "eclipse shots" are easy to arrange in CGI, but they must pose some problems when doing model work, which means the DS9 photographers would avoid them, and thus avoing showing the sun.

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Finn]

Why not? We've seen the Enterprise D "flying" into a nearby star, leaving just the silhouette of what we'd recognize as a galaxy class starship once (It was in the end of one of the episodes I think).

 

[Timo]

That was "A Fistful of Datas", the western romp. (So of course it had to feature a ride into the sunset...)

I gather there would be problems with shooting directly against a bright light in general, even if the light is later removed and replaced by a visual effect of a star. But perhaps it's not that difficult to do.

Timo Saloniemi

 

[SonicRanger]

The Past Prologue trailer

Correct:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxfnWX1SofI

So it seems that it might have been tried early on but cut and never reused for some reason.