Is there an observatory on the colony? Stars are more visible from orbit, usually.
Nyx nods eagerly: “Of course there is! Even several, in fact! They are all located in the zero-g sectors of the colony and can double as traffic control stations for the docks. Also…” She giggles. “They were used to record the International Fourth Planet Expedition departing and returning in great detail and from a safe distance, which was kinda required due to the most of the ships using open-cycle gas-core nuclear thermal rockets and, in case of the Observation Ship Agamemnon, a nuclear salt-water rocket - all with exhaust radioactive as heck. Thankfully, with proper maneuvering and usage of tugs, they were safely docked to the Core-Hub station.” Nyx pauses for a second, then resumes: “Interestingly enough, apparently, this mission had something to do with how the prophecy of Draconids about the Grand Meteor Delta never came to be. I wonder, if the Object Delta, the anomalous and previously-unseen third moon of Mars, was really the GMD and they’ve just intercepted it before it’d started going to Earth or something.” She looks to the side: “I still wonder, what those psychoreactive crystals they’ve excavated from the Object Delta are…”
