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I live in southern california and there is a point of light about the size of a star, but brighter and still twinkles, that varies in position from night to night, but stays stationary as far as I can tell during one night. There are two lights that alternate which are red and blue. Ive always wondered what this could be...a sattelite in geo sycronous orbit possibly?

2007-03-14 01:51:18 · 4 answers · asked by steven c 2 in Science & Mathematics Astronomy & Space

This is not venus. I work with radio telescopes and am familiar with where venus is in the sky. It happens to be setting near sunset right now, so it's obviously not a planet. Ive looked at it through a small telescope and saw two distinct lights blinking on and off (blue and red).

2007-03-14 02:06:42 · update #1

It's not LAX, I live in the desert, and the lights are in the sky!

2007-03-14 02:09:28 · update #2

it was in the southwest at about 30 degrees at 5am. That is an estimate, im not really sure what the coordinates would be.

2007-03-14 02:39:50 · update #3

It's not the ISS either because that zooms by really fast if you catch a glimpse of it.

2007-03-14 02:40:49 · update #4

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actually what you are looking at is the planet venus. if you notice it is the brightest "star" in the sky. you will also notice that it is in the area of the sky above where the sun sets. the reason you see it twinkling is because it is low in the sky and this is an atmospheric effect. if you wait till it gets a little darker and look all around in the sky at stars that are at about the same height as venus is when yuo see it twinkling you will notice that those stars are also twinkling. the reason you see alternating colors is because of the air movement in the atmosphere. you can see this same effect with bright stars. for instance, wait till you see venus, stand there and face venus, when it gets a little darker, look about 80-90 degrees to the left, the next brightest thing is sirius (the brightest star) you can see that it too twinkles and that the colors alternate. hope this helps!!!!!!

2007-03-14 02:01:27 · answer #1 · answered by Bones 3 · 1 0

I wouldn't have thought a geo satellite would have blue and red flashing lights on it. Maybe it's the International Space Station ? Can you give us the approximate azimuth and altitude so I can see if I can spot it as well ? How long have you been seeing this ? Roughly where abouts in the sky is it and at what time ?

2007-03-14 02:19:26 · answer #2 · answered by Timbo 3 · 0 0

there many information that would answer your question: -the celebrities on a evening sky, -the airplane or a jet that flies on the evening sky -quasars -Venus planet or the evening action picture star -the pink hypergiant action picture star interior the Canis considerable constellation, the VY Canis Majoris -the colors pink,green,blue,yellow, are the colors of sunshine from a radiated fabric -a comet -a meteor -or the auroras

2016-12-18 13:23:10 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

LAX runways?

2007-03-14 02:06:14 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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