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Huge star in the sky over NE UK
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i am looking at it right now XD been here for donkey years now.. dont know why it just has been
its mars noticed myself long ago
Quote from mcintyrej :Pretty much, not very high in the sky. I've just signed up and posted on an astronomy forum about this, see what the experts think of it.

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The internet wizards say its Venus! Oh well, goodbye doomsday.

Quote from sinbad :Venus methinks.

Quote from Shotglass :thought it was too bright to be venus but the low early night position must have it lit unsually strong

Quote from lerts :its mars noticed myself long ago

Sorry lerts, the internets are against you.
yeah... and theres me thinkin " lerts is gonna make a " are you sure its not the sun " reference "


lerts, your talents are fading
Quote from lerts :its mars noticed myself long ago

Nope, it's a puncture in your dome..
i was ready to bet on it being venus, but i did a check.................and i was right.

the picture is yesterdays sky, at 18.30...just before you posted, and if you look SW, BINGO.

good old venus.

even now when the sky is still light its one of the most common mistaken things for a UFO.
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Well here's an interesting twist, My Grandad rang up (he's big into astrology and physics) and said that its Sirius. He's a member of a specialist star watching thing and apparently its not Venus.
could be sirius is the brightest star i think

it just can be venus at that time, only at sunset-rise
Depends where or when you're looking. Venus is the most obvious object in the early night (or dusk) sky at the moment I believe. Brighter than sirius. Cue The Alan Parsons Project anyway though.
i place my bets in mars

or a comet that just wont strike the earth cause the luckiest person in the planet me is here

oh im so lucky lucky
Almost certainly Venus. It has phases like the moon, and because it orbits the distance varies by a massive amount, both of these effects make its apparent brightness vary a lot too.
I expect the current moon phase would play a part too, making it appear brighter than it normally is.
Quote from mcintyrej :Well here's an interesting twist, My Grandad rang up (he's big into astrology and physics) and said that its Sirius. He's a member of a specialist star watching thing and apparently its not Venus.

i thought in the first post mcintyrej said he was looking south west, so to my thinking he was seeing venus.

yes, sirius is bright and very low at the time, but its south east


its one of the two, depending which way you are looking, but for sure its not mars, a comet or the borg coming to assimulate us!
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Just a question, with probably an obvious answer.

Why on the sky chart are East and West the wrong way around?

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Nevermind. I worked it out. If you lie with you head towards north, the West is on your right hand side... D'oh.
basically correct.

if you print out the sky chart and held it directly above you, the chart is correct, just as if you layed it on the floor and looked at it.......its "wrong" (east, west)
NE UK

Paste thse 2 togetter in the dutch language then you would have beighn saying a very ditry word
For any future questions about stars and beyond this program could be very useful for you: It's called "Stellarium", for free and open source - I've been using it for some years now and, like LFS, there's one or two updates a year.
I have that somewhere on my PC come to think of it.
Quote from thisnameistaken :Does anyone's arse hurt?

Not you Shotty, you've got an excuse.

When you say arse do you mean the rear end becuase in different places arse means different things. If it does mean want i think it is yes my rea end hurts as i just went and had some Snowboarding lessons and i have a rear end that HURTS.
Quote from swisscosmo :When you say arse do you mean the rear end

He wants to know how your donkey is feeling.

Huge star in the sky over NE UK
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