strange star outside right now, blinking in different colors

how far on the horizon?

Sirius?

X-37B? that thing scares the hell out of me since it's been rumored to drop 'Rods From God'

Stars low on the horizon do that. Go out in a couple of hours and it won't be twinkling anymore.

Can't be. Landed in June:

[link to www.msnbc.msn.com]

Though could be Jupiter:


Or Vega:

Though, I have seen stars that do twinkle high in the sky such as Arcturus earlier this year. And a few others.. not sure though.

measured from the ground (base of a tree) its 3 fist distances up into the sky

Ah ha ha i use the same measurement system :)

Sadly i wont be able to see it here until about 2 or 3 am here

:) thanks for replying!

Probably on nights of high humidity. The water and air scatters the light more the thicker the air is.

:-)

Its Capella, its the flashing colored star...

This article explains how it makes those colors

[link to earthsky.org]

Im going to keep a look out for it!

thx!

Capella

i see it all the time.. i don't know whether it's something in the atmosphere making the stars appear to flicker different colours sometimes but i've been noticing it for months!

Same here.

But I've noticed quite a few of them...for years.

it hasnt always been like this?

if you have the star walk app on your phone use it to figure out what it is.... screen shot it too!

Has to go at least as far back as the song Twinkle, twinkle little star...

OP, Did the star look like this. I recorded this object Sept 6 in SC.

Peace

"Star is heading"?

So, you're saying this "star" is visibly moving...like a plane?

If you can actually see this thing moving across the sky, then it is not a star. Probably a satellite. I've seem many of them that looked almost as if they were pulsating.

horribly shaky but i think so yea

Yes, it has always been like this. Look it up in any old astronomy book.

Stars lowest down, appear to twinkle far more than those overhead, and this is because when we look out of our atmosphere at a lower angle we are looking through far more turbulent air.
The atmosphere works in a similar way to a prism, splitting light into various colours - but because of the turbulence, it does this intermittently, so we alternately see different colours from our fixed position on the ground.

The effect also gives rise to the old saying... "Stars twinkle, but planets burn"
Because stars are essentially a point-source of light (due to their immense distance), they suffer from atmospheric refraction far more than planets (which, though small, do have SOME size to them)
If a star, and a planet of similar brightness, happen to be near each other in the sky - the planet will look 'steadier'

However, when a planet is low enough, it's light has to pass through so many hundreds of miles of moving air, it too can appear to twinkle and change colour like this.

yes we have all seen it

and no it certainly dosnt have to be on the horizon

it maybe the x star mentioned

though definately its been kept a bit of a secret in science

terms as usually most people only find out about it when

they actually see it !!!!!

pathetic school science system run by oil