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Sometimes used to comedic effect when our heroes just won't believe they've left Earth for good, and shrug off all other, often painfully obvious, hints as some kind of [[Masquerade]] ("Wow, great special effects! I'm on hidden camera, right?").

 

 

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** [[Seasonal Rot|Later episodes]] brought us green skies (for worlds hidden in hyperspace), and a sky with a moon ''plus two additional Earths'' [[Artistic License Astronomy|(incorrectly said to be "in syzygy.")]]

* ''[[Space: 1999]]'' actually takes place on the moon after it's been blasted out of Earth orbit and the solar system.

** The Time Lord homeworld Gallifrey is perhaps the most well-known example with its fabled "burnt orange sky", although the Doctor never arrives there at random (and it isn't shown on-screen much at all).

** An early example was the planet Vortis, in "The Web Planet", which had an atmosphere so thin that the stars (and multiple moons) were visible during the day.

* A more common occurrence would be the occasional hunter's moon in which the moon appears red.

* The Aurora Borealis, better known as Northern Lights (Aurora Australis if you're on the South Hemisphere) which are caused by the effect of certain solar particles on Earth's magnetic field, can look like someone was having fun finger-painting the sky.

* Don't forget the skies of some planets that could fall into the category of [[Scenery Porn]]. Imagine, for example, how would be to see Saturn's rings from the planet itself, with them stretching from one side of the sky to the other like a huge rainbow (albeit with different colors, of course). Or the skies of Jupiter, with its moons (although only Io would appear larguer than the ours).

 

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