What do seasons look like on a circumbinary planet?
I know that it's still going to be orbiting a center of mass somewhere between the two stars, but is that orbital ellipse significantly different from a planet orbiting one star?
And as the stars themselves are farther from the center of mass and relatively closer to the orbital ellipse, how does that change the behaviors at the equinox? It seems like there will be points on the long axis of the ellipse which are not the equinox but where one sun or another will be closer to the planet than at the equinox.
I know that it's still going to be orbiting a center of mass somewhere between the two stars, but is that orbital ellipse significantly different from a planet orbiting one star?
And as the stars themselves are farther from the center of mass and relatively closer to the orbital ellipse, how does that change the behaviors at the equinox? It seems like there will be points on the long axis of the ellipse which are not the equinox but where one sun or another will be closer to the planet than at the equinox.