Huddle astronomers

[Clubfoothead]

If due north is 12 on your watch, this star or planet is at about 5. It's bright as heck. I thought it was a plane at 1st but it is stationary.

[CaP'N GRuNGe]

Sounds like the invasion is beginning.

[The Irish Doggy]

space, the final frontier

 

 

Jupiter rises shortly before midnight in the southeastern sky, and stays up the rest of the night in Sagitarrius. It is slowly growing in brightness, reaching -2.7 magnitude by the end of the month. That's about as bright as it can get, outshining all other planets except Venus.

[cliaz]

I believe that is Jupiter.

 

Last summer the wife and I were sitting out on our back deck at dusk and this bright object appeared in the north/eastern sky. It was very bright, almost like a plane landing light. We are both looking at it for about a minute or two, then it just disappeared.

 

This repeated for three nights in a row but would appear at different points in the sky later and later during dusk.

 

 

Turns out it was the international space station. The sun was reflecting off of their solar panels.

 

 

pretty cool stuff.

 

 

I love it when you are laying out at night watching the starts and you see a satellite pass over head.

[Avernus]

watch the movie Deep Impact....

 

Morgan Freeman = Barrack Obama

[Azazello1313]

if it's jupiter, check it out with binoculars and see if you can make out rings ro even a couple of its moons.

[Clubfoothead]

Thanks everyone. I didn't figure it was a star. I'll see if I can find it again tonight.

[SheikYerbuti]

There's a chance it's Uranus.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

zing!

[Clubfoothead]

There's a chance it's Uranus.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

zing!

 

Much better than that Steve Miller BS last night.