HUGE BRIGHT STAR IN THE EASTERN SKY!

Never seen such a huge brighted star, can someone explain?



Yes, what is that - A planet?

Could it be one of these strange objects: Level 2 footage, [link to blip.tv]

This has been discussed in GLP ad nauseum over the last week or so. It's bloody VENUS!

"Venus appears dazzling in September's dawn sky. The planet pokes above the horizon about two hours before the Sun rises, and is conspicuous in the east during twilight. Shining at magnitude -4.6, it is brighter than any other point of light in the sky, and it gets higher above the horizon every day. Through a telescope, Venus' disk appears 40" across and shows a 25-percent- lit phase.

Venus, the second of the inferior planets, is almost the same size as the Earth, and is the nearest body in the sky apart from the Moon. Until recently we knew practically nothing about the surface of Venus, and there were constant references to "the Planet of Mystery". Indeed, until the radar measures of the 1960s even the rate of rotation of the planet was not known.

It was then found that Venus turns on its axis once every 243 Earth-days, making the planet's day longer than its year! Even more surprising is the fact that the rotation is retrograde. In other words, Venus spins in the opposite direction to the majority of the planets in the solar system.

Finding it - one hour before sunrise, looking east.

Link to source: [link to www.nightskyinfo.com]

And it looks huge and twinkles like a star when you first see it because, at a low angle, it's shining through masses of polluted atmosphere. It stops twinkling and gets smaller as it rises higher in the dawn sky.... then you can't see it any more anyway 'cos the sun comes up. QED

This has been discussed in GLP ad nauseum over the last week or so. It's bloody VENUS!

"Venus appears dazzling in September's dawn sky. The planet pokes above the horizon about two hours before the Sun rises, and is conspicuous in the east during twilight. Shining at magnitude -4.6, it is brighter than any other point of light in the sky, and it gets higher above the horizon every day. Through a telescope, Venus' disk appears 40" across and shows a 25-percent- lit phase.

Venus, the second of the inferior planets, is almost the same size as the Earth, and is the nearest body in the sky apart from the Moon. Until recently we knew practically nothing about the surface of Venus, and there were constant references to "the Planet of Mystery". Indeed, until the radar measures of the 1960s even the rate of rotation of the planet was not known.

It was then found that Venus turns on its axis once every 243 Earth-days, making the planet's day longer than its year! Even more surprising is the fact that the rotation is retrograde. In other words, Venus spins in the opposite direction to the majority of the planets in the solar system.

Finding it - one hour before sunrise, looking east.

Link to source: [link to www.nightskyinfo.com]

And it looks huge and twinkles like a star when you first see it because, at a low angle, it's shining through masses of polluted atmosphere. It stops twinkling and gets smaller as it rises higher in the dawn sky.... then you can't see it any more anyway 'cos the sun comes up. QED


Did you HAVE to write "ad nauseum"??? Whatever happened to civility and good manners? Not to mention class.

We're not stupid, we're aware of Venus, where it should be seen and what it looks like.

So, as I tell my big dog when she's being a pest, "Go lie down and be quiet".

This has been discussed in GLP ad nauseum over the last week or so. It's bloody VENUS!

"Venus appears dazzling in September's dawn sky. The planet pokes above the horizon about two hours before the Sun rises, and is conspicuous in the east during twilight. Shining at magnitude -4.6, it is brighter than any other point of light in the sky, and it gets higher above the horizon every day. Through a telescope, Venus' disk appears 40" across and shows a 25-percent- lit phase.

Venus, the second of the inferior planets, is almost the same size as the Earth, and is the nearest body in the sky apart from the Moon. Until recently we knew practically nothing about the surface of Venus, and there were constant references to "the Planet of Mystery". Indeed, until the radar measures of the 1960s even the rate of rotation of the planet was not known.

It was then found that Venus turns on its axis once every 243 Earth-days, making the planet's day longer than its year! Even more surprising is the fact that the rotation is retrograde. In other words, Venus spins in the opposite direction to the majority of the planets in the solar system.

Finding it - one hour before sunrise, looking east.

Link to source: [link to www.nightskyinfo.com]

And it looks huge and twinkles like a star when you first see it because, at a low angle, it's shining through masses of polluted atmosphere. It stops twinkling and gets smaller as it rises higher in the dawn sky.... then you can't see it any more anyway 'cos the sun comes up. QED


Did you HAVE to write "ad nauseum"??? Whatever happened to civility and good manners? Not to mention class.

We're not stupid, we're aware of Venus, where it should be seen and what it looks like.

So, as I tell my big dog when she's being a pest, "Go lie down and be quiet".


Do you realize you're responding to a quote made 9/22/2007?

I saw this thing last week a few nights and it was way larger, brighter, and lower than Venus ever was that I can recall.
So I got my friend who has an app on his phone that
will show a sky map where you point it- and there was nothing on the map for this.
sure, it could've been an error somewhere, but I have serious doubts.

I saw this thing last week a few nights and it was way larger, brighter, and lower than Venus ever was that I can recall.
So I got my friend who has an app on his phone that
will show a sky map where you point it- and there was nothing on the map for this.
sure, it could've been an error somewhere, but I have serious doubts.

It's not on Stellarium either. Venus and Mars now below the horizon after 8 p.m., but this object is still there.

I saw this thing last week a few nights and it was way larger, brighter, and lower than Venus ever was that I can recall.
So I got my friend who has an app on his phone that
will show a sky map where you point it- and there was nothing on the map for this.
sure, it could've been an error somewhere, but I have serious doubts.

It's not on Stellarium either. Venus and Mars now below the horizon after 8 p.m., but this object is still there.

If you are in the U.S., Jupiter is rising about due East at sunset.

One more thing. The time here in MI when it's most visible is between 10pm and 4am. A pretty wide range reserved for more non-planetary things.

One more thing. The time here in MI when it's most visible is between 10pm and 4am. A pretty wide range reserved for more non-planetary things.
jupiter

How many times have you people got to be told, its venus god help us, venus in in the early moring sky you idiots.

How many times have you people got to be told, its venus god help us, venus in in the early moring sky you idiots.


explain this wanker:

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It's still Venus, always was Venus & always will be too.No amount of posting on GLP will change that ITS VENUS!

I live in Lansing, MI, U.S.A.

I have observed this SAME object for a few weeks now and I can also assure that it is NOT Venus.

NOT VENUS. Period.

I'm 23 years old, and since the Haley in '97 I've been obsessed with the night sky. I stare at it every night. But never in my short time as a being on this planet have I seen something so inexplicable.

If I look to the east I see it about 30 degrees up, and from that point about 15 degrees south. It's been there for about 3 weeks. It's BRIGHT as all get-out, and "twinkles", like a star.

It almost has a blue-ish hue to it, like an artificial light.

I've been trying to look it up for a weeks, and I stumbled on this site. I, by curse of curiosity, just have to give my input.

From what I can tell, It is a non-planetary celestial body, obviously akin to a star. What star, and why it has appeared so suddenly, is my real cause for inquiry into it's origin and lack of explanation.

Please, for the love of my sanity, someone explain this.
You are sane. Many of us here in Ohio have noticed this since June 2009. Can't explain it. It is very low and appears just at sunset as the first light in the sky. It changes colors and twinkles.