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In terms of the moons, in one of the more recent story lines I had a description where three of the moons were in the night sky, but it would be a lot later in the night before the forth one appeared. eburacum45 idea is intriguing, with that set up, which would be the late moon one wonders, or perhaps over time each one would have turns of being late.
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They would all take turns. The second moon, at 50K would be interesting- it would orbit the world in about a day and a half, so would move quite quickly against the fixed stars, but relatively slowly across the sky. Its motion would look quite different to anything we normally see from Earth.
The fastest moon would be the innermost- you could probably see it move quite easily.
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One question, how would one get a retrograde moon, do any of our planets in the solar system have a moon that orbits backwards to others around the same planet?
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Retrograde moons have to be captured, I believe; more than half of Jupiter's satellites are retrograde. Having two or three other moons makes the capture process slightly more feasible, if I recall correctly.