What planet is it?
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steve_flack
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Just after Sunset? I think it's Venus.
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steve_flack
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For a satellite to be as bright as this thing (I've seen it too) it would have to be close and very big (and hence moving quickly across the sky). The ISS isn't this bright and the ISS is the biggest thing in orbit - it takes max 5-6 minutes to cross the sky.
http://www.heavens-above.com/PassSummar ... t=0&tz=GMT
I'm pretty certain it's Venus as it's extremely bright and Venus is the third brightest thing in the sky after the Sun and the Moon.
If you're interested in this stuff then Stellarium looks cool. It's free and runs on Windows, Mac and Linux.
http://www.heavens-above.com/PassSummar ... t=0&tz=GMT
I'm pretty certain it's Venus as it's extremely bright and Venus is the third brightest thing in the sky after the Sun and the Moon.
If you're interested in this stuff then Stellarium looks cool. It's free and runs on Windows, Mac and Linux.
steve_flack said:
Or a satelite...
:lol:
Just being my normal self SF and poking fun
-Mainly because i thought i'd wander outside and take a look. 
Tis a bit different down here. Mainly the difference being that it was blue sky and sunny. MEB-one brick short of legoland sometimes...:lol:
thanks steve :thumb:
one of these days i'll be getting a telescope.. the night sky facinates me. the fact that your looking millions of years into the past when you look at a star is mind boggling :wha:
i'm curious though, would a hobby telescope be powerful enough to see saturns rings? one of my "things to do before i die" is to see at least three planets, and if possible (which would be the icing on the cake) see saturns rings with my own eyes (assisted with lenses of course) instead of looking at pictures on the net.
i know it's crazy, as obviously the images from hubble etc on the net are much higher definition than what i'll see... but to me it's like looking at photos of someplace abroad.... the photos never seem "real" compared to viewing it live with your own eyes.
thanks steve :thumb:
one of these days i'll be getting a telescope.. the night sky facinates me. the fact that your looking millions of years into the past when you look at a star is mind boggling :wha:
i'm curious though, would a hobby telescope be powerful enough to see saturns rings? one of my "things to do before i die" is to see at least three planets, and if possible (which would be the icing on the cake) see saturns rings with my own eyes (assisted with lenses of course) instead of looking at pictures on the net.
i know it's crazy, as obviously the images from hubble etc on the net are much higher definition than what i'll see... but to me it's like looking at photos of someplace abroad.... the photos never seem "real" compared to viewing it live with your own eyes.
hahahaha i was just reading something about saturn to see if i could indeed see the rings with a telescope and i came across this sentence
Saturn is the least dense of the planets; its specific gravity (0.7) is less than that of water.
does anyone else wonder if it's fermentable by that comment? :lol:
Saturn is the least dense of the planets; its specific gravity (0.7) is less than that of water.
does anyone else wonder if it's fermentable by that comment? :lol:
steve_flack
Regular.
When I was a kid I had a smallish refractor telescope and we saw the rings of Saturn quite easily - it does depend on how the planets are lined up and if the rings are sort of face on at the time. You can also see Jupiter and its four biggest Moons (Io, Ganymede, Callisto and Europa) pretty easily. IIRC those moons are so big that they'd be visible with the naked eye except they're so close to Jupiter. Obviously Mars is visible as is Venus - venus is very boring as you don;t see much - it's all covered in cloud.BrewStew said:
cool!
i was just reading that the orbit of saturn is closest every thirty years and it's rings tip at such an angle that they're clear as day... unfortunately that means i'll have to wait until 2034 (i'll be 52 then!) for the perfect picture, but it'll still be pretty good to see before then!
i was just reading that the orbit of saturn is closest every thirty years and it's rings tip at such an angle that they're clear as day... unfortunately that means i'll have to wait until 2034 (i'll be 52 then!) for the perfect picture, but it'll still be pretty good to see before then!
too bad the worlds ending december 12 2012!! :x :x :x :x :hmm: lol
ugh you're not a Planet-X believer are you? :lol:
while i do find the mayan/sumerian history fascinating, and that they knew there were 9 planets (8 technically now) before we even discovered the first, and that they were numbered from the outside, inward.. if planet X were coming, fact is, we'd see it in the daytime sky clear as a bell right now
while i do find the mayan/sumerian history fascinating, and that they knew there were 9 planets (8 technically now) before we even discovered the first, and that they were numbered from the outside, inward.. if planet X were coming, fact is, we'd see it in the daytime sky clear as a bell right now
jamesb
Landlord.
BrewStew said:
We're all going to die at 3:14:08 19-01-2038 anyway.
Or at the very least not be able to get our THBF fix
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