There is a super bright large light, like that of a star but bigger and much brighter, in the night sky in a Nor-North Westerly Direction about half way between the moon and the horizon, and slightly to the left off centre from the position of the moon. Apologies for those with cloud cover in the way preventing line of sight, but please I don't need people to tell me I'm NOT seeing things, I just want to know what it is.
2007-07-18 00:03:12 · 9 answers · asked by Bawn Nyntyn Aytetu 5 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
It's not a star, moon or planet, definately not a plane, and couldn't be a sattelite unless it's some kind of solar collector designed to reflect the sun like the one in the Bond finm "Die Another Day."
2007-07-18 00:05:22 · update #1
Even when I'm presently not in Western Australia I can say that you saw that object in the first two hours after sunset in the west. The moon has a small waxing crescent. The very bright object next to it is Venus. I know it's now unbelievably bright. It was brightest three days ago. It's because it's so close to earth right now.
2007-07-18 00:17:30 · answer #1 · answered by Ernst S 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It is the planet Venus. And it looks just like that from everyplace on Earth, not just from your location. Tomorrow the Moon will have moved and it will be much farther from the star that is is today. And the next day it will be farther still.
I am curious. If you do not know what it is, how can you be so sure it is not a planet? Get a telescope and look at it like I have done. Use sky charting software (see the source) to show where Venus and the Moon were in the sky as seen from anyplace on Earth at any time and date, like I have done. It is definitely the planet Venus.
2007-07-18 02:08:42 · answer #2 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Like campbelp2002, I'm curious as to why you insist it's not a planet. I've checked in Starry Night, and you're describing _exactly_ where Venus appeared last night as viewed from Western Australia. All of us are agreed that it must be Venus; why do you question us?
2007-07-18 03:58:33 · answer #3 · answered by GeoffG 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nibiru man
2017-02-18 22:19:36 · answer #4 · answered by andrew 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I had my good eye on Jupiter at that time 1:40-3:00 am Wisconsin time and seen nothing of the sort. True it could have been out of my field of view.
2016-05-21 16:31:12 · answer #5 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm in the USA, TEXAS to be exact but it sounds like how Venus shows here.
Way cool.
2007-07-18 08:34:58 · answer #6 · answered by Celtic Tejas 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its venus, I live in the Northern hemisphere and its visible to us too.
2007-07-18 05:28:31 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's Venus in NSW too.
2007-07-18 01:15:05 · answer #8 · answered by Choose a bloody best answer. It's not hard. 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
i agree with the others. i'm from wa - if it's always there, then it's venus.
2007-07-18 01:22:59 · answer #9 · answered by loving30 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋