MEGA bright super planet over Sydney sky now 8:39pm

It's a geese

where in Sydney are you bro?

It's cloudy down sth but I'll bet it's venus.
Actually i'm certian that's what your seeing.

I'll bet a couple of thousand dollars that I'm right.
Case closed.

mothball wrapped in ice crystals and cosmic dust

It's the mothership returning home

If you think about the complexity of having to somehow "rig" everyone's copy of Stellarium (including those not permenantly connected online) and all the other similar astronomy programs, and all the GOTO telescopes, most of which aren't even capable of being connected to the internet, and the fact that there are astronomers in almost every country in the world, some in very isolated locations, I'd have to ask who you think has the capability to even begin to take on a task like this.

And then there are also books which give the equations for planetary movements, which you can solve with just a pocket calculator. Somehow your "secret agency" has to rewrite or amend all those books in libraries, and in people's houses, and also track down any programs anyone might have written using the information in them and amend them too, maybe even without access to the source code.

Or, you could cross check different sources of information, look at other programs, online sky maps... and here's a reqlly wild idea, why not find your local astronomy club (this page - [link to www.quasarastronomy.com.au] - lists six in Sydney alone!) and go along and ask them what you're seeing. I'm sure you'll find them very friendly, and they'll be more than willing to show you the object you're seeing through a telescope or good binoculars. Who knows, you might even get an interest in what's really going on in the skies (i.e. not mad doom-laden planets or ateroids on colision courses) and find you enjoy the truth more than the rumours and misinformation of GLP.

I give credit when it's due and that is one intelligent post.

I concur. Bravo!


Double tops. ;)

It has to be a massive planet or binary star that has entered our solar system.
That's the only possible logical explanation.

Just bought the Mrs a Celestron Nexstar 8 SE to connect up to Stellarium. Not sure she'll like it but i sure as hell will!! pity i still gota wait for it, i wanta see this planet.

You surley can't be serious.
Wake up people there is no foreign planet that's entered our solar system.

What the op saw was venus.

It will get brighter and higher up in the sky as we go along.

You will see it in the west in the evenings and before sunrise.

It's the brightest thing in the sky at the moment.

to the east you will see the other planet called jupiter that's pretty bight at the moment also.

It's beyond me why people keep on posting this fear mongering bs about bright objects in the sky when there is a plausible explanation to all of it.

It followed the sunset right?? That would be Venus.. And yes, it is much bigger and much brighter than I have ever seen it.