Is it a planet? Is it a star, a satelite? I would really like to know cause its freaking me out. This is a serious question, im not saying its a UFO. I just want to know what it is cause as you watch it the sequence of the patterns of flashes change. It goes from a slow flash to a quick flash, and then its just yellow on one half and green on the other. We sat outside tonight and watched it "dance" around the sky. Someone please explain this to me.
2007-06-18 15:27:13 · 17 answers · asked by Ashley W 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
im in FL on the west side.
2007-06-18 15:48:50 · update #1
No~ but, maybe you can find your answer from one of the videos I have listed on my blog.
2007-06-21 17:40:23 · answer #1 · answered by learning_x 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If it is not moving and appears in the same place night after night, it is a star or planet. The colors are just extra strong twinkling. People have been known to get fooled into thinking it is moving when it isn't. If it seems to be moving but is still in the same area of the sky after 5 minutes, then try setting up some kind of fixed pointing device. A camera with a telephoto lens ON A TRIPOD is good. You will see that the seeming motion is an illusion.
If it moves completely across the sky in a few minutes then it is a satellite or the space station or an airplane.
2007-06-18 17:12:53 · answer #2 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For Heaven's sake, why can't you people be specific:
Your Locations:
What part of the sky (points of compass N, NW, W, SW S SE E NE)
Altitude (guess the angle - 90 deg is overhead, 45 is halfway up)
Is it moving or stationary?
If it moves, is the motion smooth, or stop and start.
How long was it visible for?
NOTE - satellites are visibly moving. Most cross the sky in minutes.
In order for someone to help you indentify this, you have to be much more explicit.
Note that Amateur observers are very poor observers, but tend to report all the UFO sightings. Don't you think that tells it all.
2007-06-18 15:52:04 · answer #3 · answered by nick s 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If it is low on the western horizon it may be the planet Mercury. Mercury is downward and to the right somewhat from very bright Venus (near the moon).
If it is in the southeast it may be the planet Jupiter.
Either one (or some of the stars) can be the culprit, and it is the atmosphere causing the flashing.
2007-06-18 15:31:13 · answer #4 · answered by David A 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
International Space Station
2007-06-18 15:31:07 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The brightest object in the night sky (aside from the moon, airplanes, and the sun) is Venus. Light from stars and planets scintillate (twinkle) because the light is bent when it enters the atmosphere -- similar to the way a pencil will seem broken and shift when it's in a clear glass of water.
2007-06-18 15:30:29 · answer #6 · answered by Mickey Mouse Spears 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's a star... No planet in our solar system reflects yellow-green light... And the planets from other systems don't reflect light strong enough to be seen from here. Satellites are also to small to reflect any significant amount of light to be seen, especially if you live in a city, where lights and other stuff dim the the starlight.
Plus, stars don't have twinkling (:P) pattern.
2007-06-18 15:33:13 · answer #7 · answered by Alderon 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Ball lighting (but that shouldn't last that long...), possibly Earth Lights (look it up on images.google.com and see), a weather balloon reflecting lights on the ground?, satelite, planet, private plane or hellicopter (I think they can have any light sequence they want...)...
basically it could be any number of things. Why don't you take a picture of it, post it on a myspace or xanga or anything like that that you have and let us see it so we can tell you for sure.
2007-06-18 15:54:56 · answer #8 · answered by agfreak90 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
nicely, i think of you would be attentive to a famous person in case you observed it, satellites would be moving....could be a climate balloon or a string of them. The alien deliver phenomenon you question has a tendency to be lights furniture that blink off then blink on in yet another area and make rapid impossible turns. moving in techniques that defy prevalent aeronautics.
2016-10-17 23:35:29 · answer #9 · answered by rask 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh, is it near the moon? That's Venus.
Post a picture of it. Unless it's Venus, then it's probably already set where you are?
2007-06-18 15:54:05 · answer #10 · answered by anonymous 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋