Anyone see see a strange "star" this morning

Saw the same thing in the eastern sky about 2:30 am here in Florida, bigger and brighter than any other star in the sky and it did look super close. Headed to bed after that...glad to know I'm not the only one who saw it and thought it was strange!

I haven't seen seen anything like that before

saw it in the western sky last night around 10 pm cst near chicago

sirius maybe?

In 4 years you will be seeing it in the evenings (again) instead of the mornings :-)

VERY bright star-like object to the east in the morning...?

It's Venus

swamp gas. move along...

geeses ?

Venus will be a bright 'evening star' again, next summer.

I also saw huge star in the east and it was blinking very fast with different colors. I think this star is comming closer to the Earth as I have been watching it for a long time and it is getting bigger.

Saw the same bright light/ star this morning only it was in the south. Extreme brightness but fluctuated and then disappeared. I observed it for some minutes before it just vanished. Thought I was losing the plot.

Quite a few of you out there saw it too. Love the swamp gas reply. Most amazing swamp gas EVER!!...I will check tomorrow morning, maybe this was a fluke... It was probably the star that grants three wishes and I lost MY chance!

I posted this on a similar thread the other day

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

yeah, There is one I see in the evening in the sw, same position every evening, and always appears to have color around it. I saw it last summer too. Its the consistent position that puzzles me. The one I saw this morning was an absolute first. Again, way bigger than the one in the evening. I really should re-learn my astronomy. I was honestly waiting for it to shoot off and zig zag across the sky. (yes the inner child defies my core logic many many times.)

Nope - Jupiter is usually visible for 9 months or more, at a time.
This apparition began round about early July - rising just before the sky got bright in the morning. An experienced skywatcher, who knows where to look, could probably have spotted it in the pre-sunrise dawn sky, from late June.
It's currently rising about 10pm-ish - and will come to opposition (due South at midnight) in early December.
Then it'll gradually edge it's way west, over the next few months, finally becoming really difficult to pick out from the evening twilight when it gets too close to the Sun, just after sunset in late April.
Early July, through to late April - that's 9 and a half months.
It varies a bit from one year to the next, depending what time of year (brightness and duration of twilight).... the angle the Sun is rising and setting when Jupiter gets near to it... etc...
9 months is a good approximation in any given year.

i saw a thread about it this morning!

neeto

Jupiter is currently quite high by morning though...

The really bright thing to the East, of a morning, is Venus.

Last Edited by Karlos on 09/16/2012 04:19 PM

that's what the thread was asking this morning, but OP said it was really so bright that he wondered.

anybody got pics ?

Venus!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

again??? shouldnt it be visible just after sunset?

No. Now it rises before sunrise. it's a morning star now.

I witnessed the beautiful alignment last night of Jupiter, Aldebaran, and Alnath around 1 am.

Jupiter was in the middle, throwing off fiery red spikes of light.

It was really beautiful.

I watched it for sometime.




Sirius and Venus rose together in the East around 5am PDT.

Sirius and Venus rose together morning sky...cool. Thanks.

Yup that was Venus. Very bright saw it the other morning just before sunrise as well. Very pretty.

:)

I highly recommend Stellarium.


A lot of fun to play with...

[link to www.stellarium.org]

or Venus.....one of the the 3? Syrius, Jupiter, Or Venus.

Skyview is an awesome app for the iphone. But since the new update it doesn't open anymore -.-

When I was a kid, I had 20:08 vision which is far better than 20/20. One time when Venus was really close I could see the crescent. Venus can be amazingly bright.