If we were anywhere else in the solar system, Mars, Venus, Io, Titan, Uranus (assuming we could stand on it) Would we see the same constellations we do on earth, in the same configuration?
You would not be able to tell a difference by looking at it with your eyes. It would be noticeable by advanced telescopes though. You have to get really far before the sky looks differently.
As others pointed out, on such small scale distances, the night sky will not visibly change. Even if you were to travel to Alpha Centari, the sky will still look mostly the same, with only the closer stars seeming to move a bit. There is a good video that shows off how similar or different the night sky looks from different exoplanets.
This One. Technically, it focuses on the Sun from other exoplanets, but it also discusses/shows off the night sky too.
The planets of the solar system are relatively close in relation to the Solar System's distance to those stars. So generally speaking, if you were to hypothetically stand on any planet and look at the night sky, you would totally recognize the same constellations as on Earth. Only with precise instruments would you notice any minute differences due to parallax.
The only real difference is that your view of the night sky according to the time of year is dependent on which Earth hemisphere you are on, and being on another planet, depending on that planet's own hemisphere and orbital inclination, would give you a different panorama of the sky as compared to where you would be standing on Earth. But in terms of individual constellations, they would appear the same.
More or less yes. Granted you'd have much greater (or lesser in the case of Venus) parallax over the course of an entire orbit.
Insofar as the constellations themselves, you'd still be able to recognize the constellations. However, depending on axial tilt and inclination, the path they take over the course of their respective year would change.
Now, if you went to another star system like Sirius (8.2 ly from the sun), or Procyon (11.46 ly from the sun), you'd see a very different night sky.
More or less, gotta realize the scale of how far away they’re are and slightly (relatively) shuffling to the right or left won’t alter them as much as you think.
Yes. Within our own solar system, the different relative positions of stars is too small for us to notice (although it's measurable with instruments). You would have to travel at least at least a few light years to start to notice the constellations "deforming."
Yes, the constellations would be the same, but the north and south poles of the sky would not be in the same places so seasonal changes would be different.
You couldn't ever see a clear sky from the surface of some of these worlds, even assuming you could stand on them, but if you were far enough above the clouds you'd see the same constellations.
I think some of the really eccentric Kuiper Belt objects, like Sedna, go out far enough that if you could ride them all the way through their millennia-long orbit, you'd see some of the nearest stars visibly shift position. But that's such a long period of time, tens of thousands of years, that some nearby stars would be visibly moving around anyway, just from their proper motion!
Neptune is 30 AU away, the nearest stars are hundreds of thousands AU away. The displacement (less than one arc minute) is imperceptible without a telescope.
The diameter of Earth’s orbit is ~300 million km. So in December you are that distance from where you were in June.
Compare that with 41 million from the orbit of Earth to the orbit of Venus or 78 million km between the orbit of earth and Mars. So the difference between the inner planet orbits is negligible compared to the distance we travel ourselves.
You would not be able to tell a difference by looking at it with your eyes. It would be noticeable by advanced telescopes though. You have to get really far before the sky looks differently.
An example of stellar parallax: https://www.nasa.gov/solar-system/nasas-new-horizons-conducts-the-first-interstellar-parallax-experiment/
Even if you moved to Alpha Centauri, only the closest few dozen stars would appear to be in noticeably different positions to the naked eye.
As others pointed out, on such small scale distances, the night sky will not visibly change. Even if you were to travel to Alpha Centari, the sky will still look mostly the same, with only the closer stars seeming to move a bit. There is a good video that shows off how similar or different the night sky looks from different exoplanets.
This One. Technically, it focuses on the Sun from other exoplanets, but it also discusses/shows off the night sky too.
The planets of the solar system are relatively close in relation to the Solar System's distance to those stars. So generally speaking, if you were to hypothetically stand on any planet and look at the night sky, you would totally recognize the same constellations as on Earth. Only with precise instruments would you notice any minute differences due to parallax.
The only real difference is that your view of the night sky according to the time of year is dependent on which Earth hemisphere you are on, and being on another planet, depending on that planet's own hemisphere and orbital inclination, would give you a different panorama of the sky as compared to where you would be standing on Earth. But in terms of individual constellations, they would appear the same.
More or less yes. Granted you'd have much greater (or lesser in the case of Venus) parallax over the course of an entire orbit.
Insofar as the constellations themselves, you'd still be able to recognize the constellations. However, depending on axial tilt and inclination, the path they take over the course of their respective year would change.
Now, if you went to another star system like Sirius (8.2 ly from the sun), or Procyon (11.46 ly from the sun), you'd see a very different night sky.
More or less, gotta realize the scale of how far away they’re are and slightly (relatively) shuffling to the right or left won’t alter them as much as you think.
Yes.
Yes. Within our own solar system, the different relative positions of stars is too small for us to notice (although it's measurable with instruments). You would have to travel at least at least a few light years to start to notice the constellations "deforming."
Yes. Intra-Solar-System distances are small, even compared to nearby stars.
Yes, the constellations would be the same, but the north and south poles of the sky would not be in the same places so seasonal changes would be different.
You couldn't ever see a clear sky from the surface of some of these worlds, even assuming you could stand on them, but if you were far enough above the clouds you'd see the same constellations.
I think some of the really eccentric Kuiper Belt objects, like Sedna, go out far enough that if you could ride them all the way through their millennia-long orbit, you'd see some of the nearest stars visibly shift position. But that's such a long period of time, tens of thousands of years, that some nearby stars would be visibly moving around anyway, just from their proper motion!
Neptune is 30 AU away, the nearest stars are hundreds of thousands AU away. The displacement (less than one arc minute) is imperceptible without a telescope.
The diameter of Earth’s orbit is ~300 million km. So in December you are that distance from where you were in June.
Compare that with 41 million from the orbit of Earth to the orbit of Venus or 78 million km between the orbit of earth and Mars. So the difference between the inner planet orbits is negligible compared to the distance we travel ourselves.