Could a moon that orbits a gas giant be always facing the sun? And could the gs giant cover the sun for roughly 12 hour a day to simulate the night? [closed]

Question

I'd like to make a fantasy work that takes place on a moon that while orbiting it's gas giant it will also be alwasy facing the sun, so that one side will be habitable while the other a desert.

And could the moon itself orbit the planet in such a way that it would be night for a period of time every day, when the gas giant covers the sun, even if it would likely not be a very long nights.

Below there are pcture of how i imagine the nights roughly would look like and the mornings/evenings would roughly look like

p.s. There are no gods in this fantasy world

Answer 1

If you mean that this moon has one face always facing its star, then just have a look back at Uranus. With an axial tilt of almost 100 degrees, each hemisphere receives constant sunlight for 42 years, then gets 42 years of darkness.

Give your moon a similar axial tilt, and make it precede/recede at the same rate that its planet orbits the star. That way one side will always point to the star.

That side of your moon that faces the star will only get a night when the planet eclipses the star. If you want that to happen daily, you will need a really short orbital period. For reference, the orbital period of Io around Jupiter is close to 42 hours and 30 minutes. You could have a smaller orbital period by having a more massive planet or a closer orbit.

Is this realistic? Yes and no, tending towards the latter. It would be more believable if this is the work of a Kardashev type III civilization. Satellites that orbit too close to their planets tend to get tidally locked in relatively short geological time. On top of that, the precession/recession you need to lock to the star is very extreme, unlikely to happen (if possible at all) and surely not stable for long.