[MOD] Your local sky
A potential view from the observation deck. Click for full version.
The Icelus colony sits in the Kuiper belt, at approximately 60 AU (5.577 × 109 miles) from the sun, making it appear a great deal smaller in the sky than it does from Earth.
Looking sunward. The bright "star" a few inches to the sun's right and slightly above it is Jupiter.
In order to simulate Earth-normal gravity, the dual-asteroid system must spin at approximately 0.20 rotations per minute. On Earth, our rotation period of 24 hours means that the stars appear to spin quite slowly - if you stare at them, they don't seem to move at all, but the movement can be captured on a long-exposure photo, or time-lapse video. On Icelus, the relatively quick rotation period means that the stars will move noticeably as one watches them.
Click to viewView of the stars from the observation deck, looking straight ahead ("East").
View of the sun from the observation deck, looking left ("North").
(Due to the lack of any magnetic field in the system besides the one generated by the colony itself as protection from cosmic radiation, there is no such thing as north, south, etc. For the purposes of navigation within this highly artificial system, north refers to sunward, south refers to anti-sunward, and so on.)
As the system rotates perpendicular to the orbital plane of the solar system, the north side of Icelus and Morpheus will be perpetually lit; the other side rests in perpetual darkness.