any1 gd with stars/planets?

[-Tigger-]

4 ages now ive noticed wot looks like a star, i think its to the west, it flickers very brightly (blue, green, orange and white)... im nt sure if its a star or a planet, i heard that planets tht r "visable" from earth usually flicker colour..

bit hard 2 describe lol.. its got me wondering 4 ages now

[Spazz]

its Santa

[katana*GFR*]

dude Santa lives to the north!

Its a satelite, spying on the things you do on your computer!


PS BB, i didnt know you lived for ages already? Dam you should be the oldest fart around here then...

[Hellfighter]

this item you see always shows up in the sky in the same area.

could be a airport with planes going to. following a flight path to a runways.

[-Tigger-]

lol spazz.. i thought that at 1st

lol katana.. getting really old now

nah chief its definatly something in space.. too high for an airport, and the nearest airport is 20mile SE from here

[Lakie]

Im guessing it was close to the horizon?

Its just refractions occurring in the atmosphere....

[IcIshoot]

Is it brighter then any thing in the sky other then the moon? If so it is most likely Venus.




What is your zip code and about what time and in what direction do you see it?

I have some software that lets me view the starts, planets and galaxies, can even track them in real time


IcI

[Hellfighter]

Originally posted by icishoot
Sounds like venus


What is your zip code and about what time and in what direction do you see it?

I have some software that lets me view the starts, planets and galaxies, can even track them in real time


IcI

thats sound so cool what software you using to track them with and do you need any hardware or it basic all online.

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IcI its visable from when it gets dark, and tbh im not sure when it goes, its the brightest "star" looking object in the sky, its well above the horizon.

btw wots the piece of software called? my dad got a telescope a few years back and it had a disk, however im pretty sure its well outdated now

[IcIshoot]

it is linux software lol, I think it is on the knoppix livecd.

I forget what it is called, I'll have to look it up. Been a while since I have used it.


IcI

[-Tigger-]

ah rite, darn.. lol

if any1 knows a windows based program let me know

[Hellfighter]

BB
i found this item, don't know how good it is but going to try it out

Link: http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/win/41820

others i found there:
Link: http://www.versiontracker.com/php/qs...-all&submit=Go

[-Tigger-]

thx 4 those links chief, will check them out now

[Grenademan]

By your description, it sounds more like a star. But since you say its fairly bright, then it migh tbe a planet. Usually if Earth sees anything brighter than the average star in the night sky, its either a planet within our solar system, a plane or a UFO. From my position, I can see around 2-3 brighter than average objects in the sky. One of them i know is Venus...pretty damn obvious. The others im guessing are the more distant worlds like Saturn or something.

Wikipedia is thy friend!

[Mauser 98K]

to the west, about 45* from horizon? that is visable here too, i think it is a planet, i have looked at it thru my telescope and it has thing orbiting it but im not shure what plannet it is.

maby it is nibiru, lol.
the planet X that was talked about in the sumerian days as the bringer of death and suposably caused the last climate shift.

comes around every 3600 years or so and causes sevear climate events like storms, gravatational anomalies causeing the earth to slow rotation to almost nothing causing it to look like it is day for 3 days, things like that, lol.

i think it might be mars or one of those, ill look at it and see and try to figure it out.

[Chrispy]

Originally posted by Mauser 98K
to the west, about 45* from horizon? that is visable here too, i think it is a planet, i have looked at it thru my telescope and it has thing orbiting it but im not shure what plannet it is.

maby it is nibiru, lol.
the planet X that was talked about in the sumerian days as the bringer of death and suposably caused the last climate shift.

comes around every 3600 years or so and causes sevear climate events like storms, gravatational anomalies causeing the earth to slow rotation to almost nothing causing it to look like it is day for 3 days, things like that, lol.

i think it might be mars or one of those, ill look at it and see and try to figure it out.

I read that the earth turns slower every year... :S

Chris

[Grenademan]

Well i heard the Earth rotates faster every year. Which is plausable, since it explains why time is seemingly moving faster with each passing year.

I also hear that the moon moves away from the Earth's hold a metre each year...

[Chrispy]

I dunno if it said in the book it moved faster or slower.

It may be faster like how you said.

Chris

[Hellfighter]

will pass three weeks off and on i seen falling stars in the sky mostly heading east to westward direction coming down ether in the gulf or Tx's