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Anyone know what it was please? Seemed too big & bright to be Venus. Just after midnight, about 90 degrees up from horizon. The top right quadrant seemed to be missing, as though someone had gobbled up that portion of pie!
Jupiter was 20Ëš above the horizon almost exactly ESE on the twelfth at about ten past midnight.
I got this from a FOS (free and open-source) application called Stellarium which is available on Linux, W*nd*ws, Mac and ported onto Android as well. It's bloody great. You can wind back time and see what star or planet or asteroid shower or artificial satellite was where at any given time. It's even shows where all the gods are in the sky when you need them!
V. large, bright star (planet?) in SE aspect of night sky on Aug 11th & 12th on 19:24 - Aug 15 by NthQldITFC
Jupiter was 20Ëš above the horizon almost exactly ESE on the twelfth at about ten past midnight.
I got this from a FOS (free and open-source) application called Stellarium which is available on Linux, W*nd*ws, Mac and ported onto Android as well. It's bloody great. You can wind back time and see what star or planet or asteroid shower or artificial satellite was where at any given time. It's even shows where all the gods are in the sky when you need them!
I can see from googling that I got my angles wrong, 90 degrees being right overhead (the zenith).
I put the object at pretty much halfway between horizon (which is high because I'm looking up a fairly steep slope) & the zenith, but it was all very imprecise in my head, & looking at the position (towards neighbours' house) ESE sounds exactly right, so I'd say Jupiter it was
Will definitely check Stellarium out, cheers ðŸ‘
Edit: downloaded & ready for tonight - but of course it's gone all cloudy now, doh!
V. large, bright star (planet?) in SE aspect of night sky on Aug 11th & 12th on 19:41 - Aug 15 by Ryorry
I can see from googling that I got my angles wrong, 90 degrees being right overhead (the zenith).
I put the object at pretty much halfway between horizon (which is high because I'm looking up a fairly steep slope) & the zenith, but it was all very imprecise in my head, & looking at the position (towards neighbours' house) ESE sounds exactly right, so I'd say Jupiter it was
Will definitely check Stellarium out, cheers ðŸ‘
Edit: downloaded & ready for tonight - but of course it's gone all cloudy now, doh!
[Post edited 15 Aug 2022 20:32]
I was thinking of "mansplaining" that 90 degrees would be directly above your head
But I felt it would be rude, so I didn't .
General rule in Life... if it is low in the sky and very bright, then it is a planet rather than a star
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V. large, bright star (planet?) in SE aspect of night sky on Aug 11th & 12th on 21:38 - Aug 15 with 4240 views
V. large, bright star (planet?) in SE aspect of night sky on Aug 11th & 12th on 21:26 - Aug 15 by EdwardStone
I was thinking of "mansplaining" that 90 degrees would be directly above your head
But I felt it would be rude, so I didn't .
General rule in Life... if it is low in the sky and very bright, then it is a planet rather than a star
Haha, thanks
I've just realised that another factor I hadn't taken into account is restricted mobility in my neck meaning that when I'm looking "right overhead" I'm probably not, I'm only looking about half the way up that other people can see - I'd need to lie flat on my back to see 90 degrees.
So what I thought was halfway between horizon & zenith was probably only 1/4 the way - ie fitting the 20 degrees as per NQOldie's post.
V. large, bright star (planet?) in SE aspect of night sky on Aug 11th & 12th on 21:38 - Aug 15 by Ryorry
Haha, thanks
I've just realised that another factor I hadn't taken into account is restricted mobility in my neck meaning that when I'm looking "right overhead" I'm probably not, I'm only looking about half the way up that other people can see - I'd need to lie flat on my back to see 90 degrees.
So what I thought was halfway between horizon & zenith was probably only 1/4 the way - ie fitting the 20 degrees as per NQOldie's post.
Oh, and found this, which looks useful - "A handy way to measure the sky" -
Both Jupiter and Saturn are currently visible in the SE sky, Saturn rising earlier and to the right of the moon whilst Jupiter rises later to the left of the moon (although it catches up through the night).
I managed to take an OK image of Saturn with my phone video and some stacking the other night even in my light polluted skies, hopefully will do something better with a better camera than my old phone.
SB
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V. large, bright star (planet?) in SE aspect of night sky on Aug 11th & 12th on 00:03 - Aug 16 with 4092 views
V. large, bright star (planet?) in SE aspect of night sky on Aug 11th & 12th on 23:14 - Aug 15 by StokieBlue
Both Jupiter and Saturn are currently visible in the SE sky, Saturn rising earlier and to the right of the moon whilst Jupiter rises later to the left of the moon (although it catches up through the night).
I managed to take an OK image of Saturn with my phone video and some stacking the other night even in my light polluted skies, hopefully will do something better with a better camera than my old phone.
SB
Wow, cracking photo ðŸ‘
What I saw was well to the left of the moon c. 00.20 on both nights, which confirms it as Jupiter.
V. large, bright star (planet?) in SE aspect of night sky on Aug 11th & 12th on 23:14 - Aug 15 by StokieBlue
Both Jupiter and Saturn are currently visible in the SE sky, Saturn rising earlier and to the right of the moon whilst Jupiter rises later to the left of the moon (although it catches up through the night).
I managed to take an OK image of Saturn with my phone video and some stacking the other night even in my light polluted skies, hopefully will do something better with a better camera than my old phone.
SB
With a phone?
Beam me up.
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V. large, bright star (planet?) in SE aspect of night sky on Aug 11th & 12th on 00:41 - Aug 16 with 4037 views
Not quite, those lens will each give you a different magnification. Stacking is where you take a video of the object (in this case using a phone camera and whatever lens gives you the magnification you want) and then you process that video to extract the best frames and then stack them on top of each other to create a cleaner image.
It's also how the pictures you see from the JWT and Hubble are constructed but obviously at a far simpler level.
SB
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V. large, bright star (planet?) in SE aspect of night sky on Aug 11th & 12th on 10:29 - Aug 16 with 3790 views
No but we had a very bright orange thing in the sky that looked strangely like the moon in disguise. Maybe the usual suspects are a bit nearer and brighter? Or more orange.
V. large, bright star (planet?) in SE aspect of night sky on Aug 11th & 12th on 12:34 - Aug 16 by ElephantintheRoom
No but we had a very bright orange thing in the sky that looked strangely like the moon in disguise. Maybe the usual suspects are a bit nearer and brighter? Or more orange.
Ah, an elephant's in the room in the shape of ElephantintheRoom.
Maybe it was Trump who'd built himself a hydroxychloroquine powered rocket in a bid to get away from the FBI 🤔
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