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thenerve User ID: 222384 United States 08/26/2011 06:47 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | whats with all the talk about color changing stars or (planets)? the atmosphere causes twinkling, which are various shades of the color spectrum caused by different altitudes of temperatures on earth. any star or planet that you look at, will change color in the earth sky if you look at it closely. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 973304 United States 08/26/2011 06:56 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | No doom here but I have a question for the astronomers. Im in north florida and last night I saw a star I see all the time. However on this night it was shockingly noticable. Blue, white, doom red, it just kept flickering and it looked bigger than I can remember. I also dot remember it being in the west but thats not a big deal because I am not that great an expert on the stars. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 618413 Did anyone notice the rather bright multi colored star last night? The brightest star in the western sky after sunset for Northern hemisphere observers is Arcturus. |
AlphaRecon User ID: 1383590 United States 08/26/2011 06:56 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I had a similar star last night in the western sky at about 2130 hrs or so. I took my scope out and looked at it, it was twinkling more than every other star and it moved a lot faster than other stars. It was in-between two trees, by the time I set up my scope it was almost behind one of the trees moving north. I kept having to adjust my scope to center the star/planet. I don't know what it was as I don't have a star map, which reminds me, I have to go buy one! LOL But yes OP it caught my eye cause it was twinkling a lot more than the others. Even with my scope I could still see it twinkling, I'm gonna check it out tonight and see if its doing the same thing. |
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Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 618413 United States 08/27/2011 10:45 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | It's been out there all summer, whatever it is. Never seems to move - same place every time I see it. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1328412 Really? For whatever reason I just noticed it a few days ago and it was striking. It stood out like venus does when venus does its Bright thing lol. But its more than just extremely bright, it changed colors like a lazer show. Glad im not the only one who noticed it. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 1511521 United States 08/27/2011 10:48 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Last I checked, satelite's don't float around the sky like a drunken sailor, pulsating rainbow disco-ball colors. OP - I've seen, filmed, and researched this 'star'. It's called the 'star sign UFO' and there are more than one. Generally, it will move along with the earth's orbit, but it is in our atmosphere, and every once in a while... it moves. There are many strange objects up in the sky right now mimicking aircraft, stars, satelites, planets, and even the moon. These objects are NOT of this earth. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 1511521 United States 08/27/2011 10:49 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | It's been out there all summer, whatever it is. Never seems to move - same place every time I see it. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1328412 Really? For whatever reason I just noticed it a few days ago and it was striking. It stood out like venus does when venus does its Bright thing lol. But its more than just extremely bright, it changed colors like a lazer show. Glad im not the only one who noticed it. For the most part, it won't move - it'll remain stationary. But every once in a while, it WILL move. OP - google 'star sign UFO' and you will find your answers. Many youtube videos of this same thing. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 1477938 United States 08/27/2011 10:56 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Sirius Interview on the RAINBOW star from earthsky.org And Paula wrote, This morning two of us got up early. We found a pulsing star straight down the sky below Orion’s Belt. It was pulsing the colors of green, yellow, blue and red like a strobe light. I will search for it every morning as it was so enchanting. It is enchanting, so much so that – every year, beginning in the fall – we get many, many questions about a multicolored star twinkling in the southeastern to southern sky after midnight. This star is Sirius in the constellation Canis Major the Greater Dog. It’s sometimes called the Dog Star. Sirius is now rising in the southeast in the hours after midnight now and can be found in the south at dawn. Notice that a line from Orion’s Belt to points to Sirius. Sirius appears to flash different colors when it’s low in the sky . . . really, all the stars are flashing different colors. That’s because light is composed of all the colors of a rainbow, and the journey through our atmosphere breaks starlight into its component colors. |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 618413 United States 08/27/2011 11:06 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Sirius Quoting: APOLLO ILLUMINAUGHTY Interview on the RAINBOW star from earthsky.org And Paula wrote, This morning two of us got up early. We found a pulsing star straight down the sky below Orion’s Belt. It was pulsing the colors of green, yellow, blue and red like a strobe light. I will search for it every morning as it was so enchanting. It is enchanting, so much so that – every year, beginning in the fall – we get many, many questions about a multicolored star twinkling in the southeastern to southern sky after midnight. This star is Sirius in the constellation Canis Major the Greater Dog. It’s sometimes called the Dog Star. Sirius is now rising in the southeast in the hours after midnight now and can be found in the south at dawn. Notice that a line from Orion’s Belt to points to Sirius. Sirius appears to flash different colors when it’s low in the sky . . . really, all the stars are flashing different colors. That’s because light is composed of all the colors of a rainbow, and the journey through our atmosphere breaks starlight into its component colors. The star I am seeing is in the western sky. However, more research has given me an answer I think. Scintillation may be the answer to the multi colored stars. The star I am seeing may be Arcturus. |
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sarasota will User ID: 13913210 United States 04/06/2012 06:42 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I saw a bright "star" in the north western sky (I am in Baltimore county Maryland). To the naked eye it was kind of fuzzy on the top-left side. I put the binoculars on it and it was a bright red on the botom, and light Kelly green multi stranded tail to the upper left. It looked so close, that I thought it was some sort of weather baloon. I have macular degeneration in one eye, but I've never had color distortion, only structural distortion(wavy lines). No one else in my family sees what I see. Help! |
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aries412 User ID: 70876190 United States 11/23/2015 01:52 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I live in Albany, OR. We're about 80 miles south of Portland. This morning, about 5:30, my boyfriend told me there was something in the sky that I needed to see. With the naked eye, I saw an ultra-bright, sparkling, color-changing as well as shape-changing object in the sky southwest of here. Looking through binoculars, saw what looked to be two objects that seemed to separate and then reunite. Both having the most beautiful colors, I have ever seen, flashing and changing constantly. There were reds and greens and blues and yellows and oranges, When the object seemed to separate, the one in front, had four points that shot out bright white light, while the other part was the mixture of colors in a roundish shape. We watched it for a good 30 minutes, until it became too light. It was truly amazing and hope to see it again, this morning. |
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