I am in Orkney and I can see a bright light to the west. It seems too bright to be a star so I was thinking it may be a planet.
Does anyone know what it is?
UK only please.
2007-03-27 08:55:27 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
PS. Thanks to anyone who has been genuinly helpful in their answers. To the rest of you, it is actually quite hurtful to be ridiculed or made out to be retarded when asking a perfectly reasonable question.
2007-03-27 09:15:56 · update #1
If the sky is clear, you can see Saturn, in the constellation of Leo. Venus is also out, I think its in or near Pisces this month.
The link below will take you a page where you download a map of the sky in PDF format.
Happy Hunting.
2007-03-27 09:06:37 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
because you say you talked about them again 20 minutes later i could say you've been searching at Jupiter (interior the east) and Venus (interior the west). the area Station and the go back and forth bypass over a lot swifter than that, extra like intense flying plane. because the Earth turns the sky seems to rotate at about 15 ranges in accordance to hour, so in 20 minutes Jupiter and Venus (and each thing else interior the sky) could have moved about 5 ranges. it really is really sizeable, extraordinarily for bright gadgets close to to the horizon. take a seem again on yet another nighttime quickly. Venus and Jupiter will nonetheless be in a lot an same positions relative to at least one yet another. besides the indisputable fact that because the days positioned on on Venus will be in the route of the horizon at the same time as it first is composed of your interest and Jupiter should be slightly extra round to the south (because you're interior the Northern Hemisphere.)
2016-12-02 22:01:01 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Is it changing colors and sparkling like mad? That could be Sirius, which is the brightest star in the sky and should likely be in the west where you are right now.
I have twice won bets with people who swore it was too colorful--or colourful, if you're in Blighty ;)--to be a star, and they lost when the thing was still there about an hour later.
Venus is bright, but not blue. Sirius is predominantly blue because it's so hot. Is Orion (the three close linear stars) nearby? If Orion is a little up and to the left, you're probably seeing Sirius.
2007-03-27 09:02:41 · answer #3 · answered by Professor Beatz 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
For heaven's sake. Have a look at my latest question which asks why there is so much ignorance of basic viewing of the sky.
IT IS VENUS.
IT HAS BEEN IN THAT PART OF THE SKY FOR MONTHS
IT IS VISIBLE MOST OF THE TIME, IN EVENING OR EARLY MORNING.
IT IS THE THIRD BRIGHTEST OBJECT IN THE SKY, AFTER THE SUN AND MOON.
Where have you been hiding. I wouold have thought Orkney was fairly gentle on light pollution.
PS :
The garbage answers above.
1. Siriius is not in the west., and is only a fraction as bright as Venus
2. A satellite, and especially the ISS move across the whole sky and are gone in a matter of minutes - 10 minutes at most.
2007-03-27 09:05:43 · answer #4 · answered by nick s 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
venus dude.Btw the light of venus is that strong it leaves a shadow on the earth, cool hey.
2007-03-27 21:43:37 · answer #5 · answered by cheekychap1975 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
International space station.
2007-03-27 08:58:53 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
At night that would be Venus, at sunset that would be the sun, any other times that would be your imagination.
2007-03-27 09:03:09 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
in the evening it will be Venus
2007-03-27 09:34:09 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is Venus.
2007-03-27 08:58:55 · answer #9 · answered by Gene 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
its a bright light mate...i swear.
2007-03-27 09:07:47 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋