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

wat??

Answer 2

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 3

daytime without sun? hows that done then?

Answer 4

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 5

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

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

Answer 6

Dark. Try going going outside your house after sundown.

Answer 7

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 8

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 9

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.