what is this?

Question

http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r223/kck_x/star.jpg

i see it every night and i thought it was a really really big bright star,and i look at the other bright star ,and its two times bigger.So my dad said it's a planet..i took a pic.. and that's how it came out.. lol and i look at it closely and omg it's wierd shape!! alien ship? satelite? planet? star? what?

Answer 1

It looks out of focus and hard to tell.

Answer 2

I suspect it was Venus. Venus has been very bright lately--much brighter than any star. It would help if you said which direction you were looking (north/east/south/west), and what time of night. That could help narrow it down.

> ... its two times bigger.

There is an optical illusion that makes very tiny objects look bigger if they are very bright. You can demonstrate this with an experiment. Poke two small pinholes in a dark piece of cardboard or construction paper, about 4 inches apart. Try to make the pinholes the same size. Now take a flashlight and the cardboard, and have a friend stand about 10 feet away. Put the flashlight behind the cardboard and shine it through one hole (so the light points directly at your friend), and ask him which of the two holes looks bigger. Now shine the flashlight through the other hole, and ask again. Probably he'll say the "brighter" one looked bigger in both cases.

>...omg it's wierd shape!!

A small light source (like Venus) will come out looking just like that if you are not careful when you take the picture. If you haven't set the focus just right, it will come out looking too big. If the camera moves by even a little bit, the image will have a strange-looking shape. Your picture looks very much like some pictures I have tried taking of Venus.

Answer 3

RickB is right on the money here. The picture looks like the camera wobbled while taking a picture of a star. Remember that stars are hard to photograph with a regular camera unless you take lots of extra steps like using a stable tripod, a remote line to trigger the shutter, a longer exposure time, etc. If you just point and shoot, you'll be very lucky to get anything good at all.

Answer 4

where did you see it? east? west? high in the sky or low? right after sunset? right before sunrise?

we can have no idea what the heck you were looking at without any specifics. after sunset both Venus and Jupiter are up and they are both quite bright, although venus is significantly brighter than Jupiter right now. odds are what you are looking at is one of them.

the picture is blurry and out of focus. if it was taken through a telescope i might be tempted to say you caught a comet, but if it was just a normal camera then it could be anything.

so give more specifics and then try asking this again, you might get a more useful answer

Answer 5

It is most likely either a star, planet, or part of somethign like a milky way of another part of the galaxy.
No way to actually know unless a astrologist was able to study it, probably use one of those huga telescopes to get a godo look at it.
It could very well be a spaceship ... oooooo.. spokey
was it moving?

Answer 6

If you see it in the western sky after sunset, it is the planet Venus. It has that shape because all the planets show phases, just like the moon.

Answer 7

Look it up on the sky chart.

Answer 8

it looks blurry. maybe it is a comet or star or venus

Answer 9

probably reflection from venus or mars

Answer 10

a ghost! they show up like that in photos!
not kidding