Bright star next to moon right now?

Venus not jupiter

100% Venus, a slither of the moon, and Jupiter are all clearly visible...
But Venus is by far the brightest !!!

Correct - Venus

I looked on neave.com and it is Venus.

I looked on neave.com and it is Venus. Juniper is below it.

just getting telescope on it now, i live in the isle of man x

haha its Venus not Jupiter, its the rotation of the planet its next to the moon on june 5th however it will be in the sun so when you look up in the morning dont be freaked out by the black dot in front of the sun its a really rare transeit of venus across the sun that only happens once every couple hundred years

I don't get it i believe it's Jupiter but i have been seeing this star now for nearly one and a half years, almost on a nightly basis, i find that very odd because i thought Jupiter could only be seen for about six weeks per year,
just search glp their is usually at least one thread about it every week and going back the last 12 months

lol i saw it today actually, thinking, wonder what star/planet it is

tis the messenger of course

Mercury

Pick up an old school software (so not stellarium for shills),and you'll see.

Thats definantly not jupiter! jupiter will appear in east around 2400 to sunrise ,im in new orleans.. im tryna figure what that is too

i see all of yall looking on different sites all saying its something different, i havnt seen one correct answer yet, go to earthsky.org and itll teach and show yall what stars and planets are what.. im not tryna down anyone but im just sayn,godbless

It's Mars.

[link to www.spaceweather.com]

No, it it not.

its mars ,obama says so

mars

It's the 15th brightest star in the night sky called 'Spica'. Our local observatory did a news story on it yesterday.

[link to www.stuff.co.nz]

Another tips their hat to the coming one.

[link to en.wikipedia.org]

Pay attention to the dates in threads, folks.

This thread was started last year, when Jupiter was the planet in question.

Now the night sky is totally different.

I have been watching the object in question for over eighteen months now, at the moment it is 107 degrees East around 4am in the UK.

What I want to know is this, if it is Jupiter as some as stating it is, when will it no longer be visible in the sky - what sort of date we talking here. The same question for if it is Venus.

Secondly, the object is bloody massive now compared to what it was eighteen months ago and it was quite large then, that was when I first noticed it, its brightness got my attention - however, the size of it now is around four times as large as when I first saw it.

Anybody else noticed the same?

... oh an another thing, apart from our own Sun, it is not possible to see planets or stars around noon when the sun is shining (cloudless sky of course) as far as I know is it?

Then could somebody enlighten me why, I was able to see it with the naked eye at approx 11am just over a week ago - granted I had to look very closely, but as I knew exactly where I was supposed to look, I could actually see the object in question.

Anybody have any theories?

It might be Betelgeuse. Does that help? Jupiter is to the right of the moon.

Dude. This thread was made in September 2011. Lol

Last Edited by Bomb Cyclone on 11/29/2012 05:27 AM

OMG it MUST be Niborrroooo !!11111!! The moon is a secret government operative that has been hiding Niburu from us!@!!111 1 They hold up a giant black piece of paper at night so none of the millions of people with telescopes can see it!111!!