Bright star next to moon right now?

no

Its Antares?

(α Scorpii, α Sco, Alpha Scorpii) is a red supergiant star in the Milky Way galaxy and the sixteenth brightest star in the nighttime sky (sometimes listed as 15th brightest, if the two brighter components of the Capella quadruple star system are counted as one star). Along with Aldebaran, Spica, and Regulus it is one of the four brightest stars near the ecliptic. Antares is a slow variable star with an average magnitude of +1.09.[

Alternative name of this star, meaning "the Heart of Scorpion"

The orbit is poorly known, with an estimated period of 878 years. Hence, 8 points of the pentagram.

Templar lore associated with the fixed stars Aldebaran and Antares. "Watchers of the Western and Eastern Portals?"

These are theories folks. Thoughts?

nice theory and good thinking but it's arcturus

I retract that statement...

Last Edited by Gnostic Warrior on 09/17/2011 06:56 PM

i was being honest in saying nice thinking and good theory. if you care what spirit says it's arcturus. if not carry on..

It was jupiter I promise.

How yeah, Explains this?

Here is a familiar figure – to stargazers – and to Texans like me. Just yesterday, my little neighbor – age 5 – told me she saw a scorpion. To those of us who watch the skies, the chance to see a celestial Scorpion is present mostly in the summer months. Here it is – Scorpius the Scorpion – only visible at nightfall and very early evening now that summer is fading away.

The Scorpion is one of the few constellations that looks like the creature for which it was named. It’s that curved “tail” of stars looping down toward the southern horizon that does the trick. The star Antares is sometimes called the Heart of the Scorpion. It is a fiery red star, one of the brightest stars in the sky, with a reputation for twinkling fiercely. The fierce twinkling no doubt stems from the fact that, to us in the northern hemisphere, Antares arcs across the southern sky and is often seen low in the sky. And when we look low in the sky, we’re looking through a thicker-than-usual mass of Earth’s atmosphere. The atmosphere, of course, is what causes stars to twinkle.

[link to earthsky.org]

Shit, I am an amateur, lol... I'm tryin guys and gals.

September 16, 2011

Moon and star iconJupiter rises just to the right of the Moon in mid-evening and sticks with it as they climb high across the sky later on. It looks like a brilliant star. Through binoculars, Jupiter’s four largest moons look like tiny stars quite near the planet.

the atmosphere is not the reason that celestial objects twinkle but that's another story

arcturus was known as the mother of antares in native australian tribes

Nope. Arcturus sets in the West around the same time Jupiter is rising in the East. The object next to the Moon was Jupiter. I've been watching it with my telescope.

let's say i was born in perth and went away for a while. i came back and maps written by mainstream agenda driven entities say it is sydney, all those who never lived there when it was perth know it as sydney because that's what the map says. i remember it being perth and can only remind people that it is perth. they can believe the map or someone who actually lived there. no big deal

Lay off the bong man. It's frying your brain.

It's not Jupiter. Planets don't appear in the sky in comparable positions to our moon for 4 nights in row. Our moon orbits us, planets orbit the Sun. DUH. lol

Because the Moons position changes approximately 12 degrees per day.

That's Jupiter.

It's been passing by the Moon for a few days now.

Duuuuh! The moon takes 29.5 days to orbit the earth, so it moves across the sky fairly slowly.

If you'd actually been looking, instead of getting your information from GLP, you'd have seen that the moon has in fact slowly been passing Jupiter over the last few days. They haven't been in exactly the same positions relative to each other.

So, double duuuuh! to you...

i'm sorry guys to disagree with you..i had the same question..so when i got home i used my telescope (i thought was JUPITER too) but it's not..normally jupiter has 2 halos in the middle,but this one hasn't..it's just bright..
there are other stars to bright..so when i use the telescope u can see like they have 3 different colors..but this one it's just white..nothing else..so i was wondering maybe somebody could tell me about it..so i guess i'm gonna keep looking..

i'm sorry guys to disagree with you..i had the same question..so when i got home i used my telescope (i thought was JUPITER too) but it's not..normally jupiter has 2 halos in the middle,but this one hasn't..it's just bright..
there are other stars too bright..so when i use the telescope u can see like they have 3 different colors..but this one it's just white..nothing else..so i was wondering maybe somebody could tell me about it..so i guess i'm gonna keep looking..

Wow, really?

Stellarium people.

It's Venus, not Jupiter.

Jupiter is MUCH higher in the sky.



Morning and Evening Star.

Uh, sorry.

I just realized this thread was SUPER old.

No offense.

hehe.

It is very bright white. I've been watching it for months

it's not jupiter..i thought it was but jupiter it's on the left of the moon and this bright star it's on the right..anybody?

it's not jupiter..jupiter it's on the left side and this bright star it's on the right,i have i telescope too all i can see is a big white dot..but not halos or something like jupiter..

I'm not sure what you mean by "halos" but it sound like your telescope needs adjusting. If it's a reflector get the collimation checked.

Since people never give even half-understandable information about time and direction, it's hard to say which objects they're looking at, but currently Venus is in the south west after sunset, with Jupiter quite high, and more to the south. Mars rises in the east about 9 pm, and Saturn rises after midnight.

7.37pm in Bookham, south-East England. I'm no expert but to me it looks like Venus. It's the coolest thing I have ever seen . .. in the sky.
Does anyone know of any sites that I can look at as this is the first time I have seen this sort of thing and I'm kind of hooked

Venus not jupiter