HUGE BRIGHT STAR IN THE EASTERN SKY!

[youtube]To be clearer about my recent posting: Venus is an "evening star" from late February through October of 2010. This means that it is only visible in the WESTERN sky after sunset. During these months it is not visible at or near dawn!
Venus will become a "morning star" again in November and December of 2010 and will ONLY be visible in the EASTERN sky, shortly before dawn.
The ridiculously bright star in the EASTERN sky cannot be Venus. Venus is only visible (at this time - in the northern hemisphere 9/9/2010)in the WESTERN sky, low on the horizon, shortly after sunset.
It is true that the planet Jupiter is currently visible in the EASTERN sky. However, it is ridiculously absurd to claim that Jupiter would ever appear as huge and bright as this current anomaly is! Don't believe a word of it! This is not a, normally observed, planet or star! Keep your eyes on it and watch and listen for further information. This could get interesting!

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.


I'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?)

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



Yes, what is that - A planet?

Don't know, but it's closer than i have ever seen, i just noticed it tonight. What planet? I don't know.

stars are those big nuclear fire things, as opposed to planets which are those small rocky things.

Venus-what's going on.
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well it's december and "venus" is still high in the morning sky. swamp gas maybe? or klingons flying around uranus.

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.

Is it true? Is their a Giant planet nibiru tugging at venus , pulling it closer to earth?

Here's my post on the other related thread. No way this was a planet...

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Not sure if what I saw this morning is the same object that you all are discussing here, but let me say...I was impressed and a bit unnerved by this thing. Let me explain: I was waiting on a train platform at 6:00 am this morning facing south waiting for a commuter train to take me westward towards my destination. At about 2 o'clock in the early morning sky, this star, or so I thought, appeared to be pulsing. And although I am no star gazer by any means, I can tell the difference between a star and a planet. This was no common star - it was pulsing and doing so very deliberately; it was larger that anything else in the night sky (save the moon) and it was blue. After staring at it for about I minute, I started to feel a bit unnerved - meaning, I couldn't recall ever seeing a star behave in this manner before and felt fearful that something just wasn't right. Could this be what you all are referring to?

[youtube]To be clearer about my recent posting: Venus is an "evening star" from late February through October of 2010. This means that it is only visible in the WESTERN sky after sunset. During these months it is not visible at or near dawn!
Venus will become a "morning star" again in November and December of 2010 and will ONLY be visible in the EASTERN sky, shortly before dawn.
The ridiculously bright star in the EASTERN sky cannot be Venus. Venus is only visible (at this time - in the northern hemisphere 9/9/2010)in the WESTERN sky, low on the horizon, shortly after sunset.
It is true that the planet Jupiter is currently visible in the EASTERN sky. However, it is ridiculously absurd to claim that Jupiter would ever appear as huge and bright as this current anomaly is! Don't believe a word of it! This is not a, normally observed, planet or star! Keep your eyes on it and watch and listen for further information. This could get interesting!


After reading the rest of this thread, I kinda doubt it gets any more interesting. But, I did chuckle a few times, groan several times and marvel at how the Internet has allowed us to reach new heights of mediocrity. I'm wondering, 100 years ago, did these sort of conversations track through letters the same way-- only at a slower rate?

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

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

from my location in northeast alberta. i see it best coming into work at 6:30 am and it is located southeast. very bright.. ill see if i can get a pic up from my cell after work

it is NOT venus...venus is right where it has always been


if you looked for yourself you wouldn't appear so ignorant

debunk all you will...anyone with a brain KNOWS that this is something other than NORMAL

I have never seen such a star in all my years...NEVER

it is like a halogen light...so clear and bright, it outshines all the other stars, and is well worth your time to look.

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i live in round up montana and have seen these lights and also been watching them in yuma az.for 4 years they appear to be many of these pulsating lights and they are definetly getting closer i love the stars and astrology since i was a kid i have been searching the skys these lights appeared 4 years ago and pulsate unlike anything i have ever seen before so all you people claiming this is normal look up uranus

Been watching here in Oklahoma and that is not a star....I can look at it with my binoculars and those lights flash in a pattern, they are not random.

Been watching here in Oklahoma and that is not a star....I can look at it with my binoculars and those lights flash in a pattern, they are not random.