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HUGE BRIGHT STAR IN THE EASTERN SKY!
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As I posted on the other thread - it is NOT a planet (ie Venus or Saturn); since when do planets PULSATE?! A planet appears as a static light in the sky - no light fluctuations at all. A star "twinkles". This thing in the eastern morning sky PULSATES in such a way as nothing else in the sky. Explain that...
It's not a planet or star. I look at them through my telescope. As of September 2 there are 7 different objects in the sky. One very bright object in the West that comes out around 8 PM and one in the East that appears around 9 PM. There are 5 others that move from east to north that hoover around the horizon line.
The all pulsate. The five around the horizon get bright and then disappear. There are two that are brilliant yellow, two that are red and one that changes colors from red to white.
Quoting: KC 1088463I've been watching the LARGE VERY BRIGHT object in the western sky since the end of May, and, yes, sometimes it changes colors - mostly red/white/blue - but not "twinkling" really, slower than that. I'm 68 years old, have been a sky-watcher for a long time, never seen anything like it other than Halley's Comet in the 70's, which was about the same brightness. It does NOT show up on Stellarium.
At this date, September 3, Venus (and Mars) sinks below the horizon just after 8 p.m., but this thing is still there, more to the north. NO, IT'S NOT ANTARES. It seems to just disappear later, not sinking below the horizon 'cuz it stays in the same spot, then gone. Maybe I don't watch it long enough. But stars and planets move, and pretty fast too; you with telescopes know this. Haven't a clue... Has anyone in more northerly latitudes seen it? I'm in S. Arizona, my Seattle friend says he doesn't see anything. (But when is the sky clear in Seattle?)
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