Strange Siting With Sirius in North America?

What the fuck?

Interesting.

Yes earlier tonight especially in san diego

Right?

Thread: WHY HAS SIRIUS A BEEN REMOVED FROM GOOGLE SKY? The Hopi Prophesy. The Dogon. Nibiru.

Lens flare. Your eye has a lens. Just ask Astro or TBar about lens flare - it explains pretty much everything.

:lensflare:

The times, they are a-changin.

Thanks for the link. Can't wait to check it out. Excited to see what Sirius does in the coming days/Weeks.

O yeah me and my wife watched it last night. Prety cool shit.

Sirius twinkles because it is so low to the horizon. The light from it has to travel through a lot more atmosphere which is full of dust and dirt. This is what gives it its colors. On nights when you see it as white, This is a good indication of good "seeing" conditions.

Although the dust and dirt does change the color of things, making them typically appear redder, the cause of the twinkling and color flashing is due to the light from the star passing through layers and blobs of Earth atmosphere with different light bending properties. As the light passes through this air it can be shifted by a small amount 'off-axis' if you like, and this causes a momentary change in the amount of light reaching your eye. The star appears to twinkle.

The bending can also be accompanied by the light being spread out into its component spectral colors and as this spectrum can also shift to the side, your eye picks the effect up as a flash of color.

Dust and dirt in the atmosphere isn't directly related to seeing but rather the clarity of the atmosphere, as described by the sky's "transparency".

The question SHOULD NOT be "why is Sirius twinkling so much?" It's not acting any differently than any other time.

The question should be, "what's different about our atmosphere than before?"

Now that's the million dollar question.

1. Cosmic Space Bubbles
2. The Heliosphere
3. The Sun Cycles
4. Global Warming (not by human activity but by natural ebbs and flows. Man's effect = Negligible.)
5. Massive Methane Releases (Nearing BLEVE in many areas [link to en.wikipedia.org]
6. Weather & Temperature Change (Increasing rapidly, Dramatic change.)





Last Edited by USCG Popeye on 01/06/2012 10:36 AM

7. A cosmic wave of divine fire coming to cleanse us all and liberate our atoms from our bodies? Just saying, it's possible

It appears that way due to atmospheric conditions you can't see with the naked eye.
Especially in January.

Well it's definitely still at it. Just as beautiful as last night as far as I can tell. If you haven't seen it yet it's low on the horizon to the south east right now.

I seen it!!! It was amazing!!! Like you said very bright and flickering colors!! In fact I wasnt quite sure what I was looking at. I live in Indiana. Its gone now.

It does this alot, Its a Plasma light ship from heaven not the star. Image from GLP's 20" scope :Astromut sirius:

wrong

It's been going for at least a couple of weeks now, it's quite a light show

yep every single december January etc.

Honestly I've never seen it look this awesome. Maybe I was just blind to it before

Planets do flicker. The flickering is caused by variations and movements in the atmosphere. It is not caused by what they are made of.

That being said, Sirius IS bright as shit and flickering madly. So are Venus and Jupiter. Maybe I'm getting older and noticing more, but Venus and Jupiter especially seem soooo much brighter than I can remember.

they are both CRAFT.

Awesome explanation! I especially appreciate that after you've given your explanation, you also helped to raise the real question, my bet would be on the massive methane release into low altitudes, causing the light to appear to twinkle and bend. Thank you!

they are craft people. not methane releases making them sparkly.

Oh, I forgot to ask, but why's it blocked out on google sky?

The Alan Parsons Project - Sirius

As much as the guy bothers me some times, I can't help thinking about Apollo's comments that he "knows" government officials who say the atmosphere is thinning.

Seeing threads like this add to the worries I have when the weather in Southern Ontario is +0 almost everyday this winter, with temperatures going up to 5 this weekend.

Extremely abnormal and the fact people seem to not question it worries me even more.

"Oh what beautiful weather." This is Ontario, Canada, and this is the freezing cold part of the year, you should know that.

Northern Indiana, and its not normal for sure... clear skys can see it perfect... wish i had a better camera