that bright dot under it is jupiter.

8/20/2011 2:21:16 AM

Jupiter is a pagan myth.

Find God, brah.

8/20/2011 2:22:05 AM

Also, you will see a prime example of a waning gibbous, which is less dirty than it sounds.

8/20/2011 2:23:52 AM

my eyes are the size of the moon

i could cause i can so i do

8/20/2011 6:33:14 AM

i assume this was a one night deal?

8/20/2011 8:08:35 PM

I like to think of Jupiter as Zeus

8/20/2011 8:09:30 PM

will jupiter ever stop jupiting

8/20/2011 8:14:08 PM

Quote :

"i assume this was a one night deal?"

Naw, it'll take a few to get out of phase.

8/20/2011 8:36:52 PM

Where girls go to get more stupider.

8/20/2011 8:45:32 PM

jupiter is bright as shit tonight.

10/14/2011 9:42:17 PM

Just went outside to take some pictures and couldn't get the setting on my camera correct.

And...I couldn't see any bright dot under the Moon. I saw something pretty bright by itself about 27 degrees up and to the right of the Moon, though.

10/14/2011 9:57:51 PM

I came in here to post

Quote :

"And...I couldn't see any bright dot under the Moon. I saw something pretty bright by itself about 27 degrees up and to the right of the Moon, though."

According to Google Sky Map, it is Jupiter.

10/14/2011 10:01:36 PM

right... jupiter was right under the moon in august (when the thread was made)

I bttt-ed it because it is super bright tonight. I also saw the ISS tonight around 8:15 maybe... flew right over raleigh.

[Edited on October 14, 2011 at 11:08 PM. Reason : ]

10/14/2011 11:08:05 PM

ohhhhhh, obviously no one reads past the first post

10/14/2011 11:16:04 PM

shit i thought that shit was beetle juice gettin loose off da juice

10/14/2011 11:26:26 PM

go look at jupiter. that bright dot over it is the moon.

10/14/2011 11:40:23 PM

Something about this thread seems romantic to me

10/14/2011 11:45:43 PM

That's pretty cool, how bright it is tonight.

10/15/2011 12:43:56 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rn2l3Zb6wlQ&feature=fvst

10/15/2011 12:46:18 AM

I, too, took astronomy in college.

10/15/2011 1:30:12 AM

I, too, watched the news.

10/15/2011 1:37:42 AM

EVRYDAY I'M JUPITIN
EVRYDAY I'M JUPITIN
EVRYDAY I'M EVRYDAY I'M EVRYDAY I'M JUPITIN

10/15/2011 2:19:47 AM

can I bark at it?

10/15/2011 2:20:40 AM

:chuckles:

10/15/2011 4:32:21 AM

if you have good binoculars or a scope, you can see some of the moons around jupiter.

[Edited on October 15, 2011 at 9:00 AM. Reason : ]

10/15/2011 9:00:20 AM

Watched the ISS pass over this evening, that was pretty cool.

10/16/2011 9:33:52 PM

tomorrow night you can see it for ~5 minutes, almost straight overhead.

10/16/2011 9:48:39 PM

what time?

10/16/2011 10:13:59 PM

http://www.heavens-above.com/

Set your location and look up the next visible ISS pass.

10/16/2011 10:17:41 PM

i like to use this site
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/cities/skywatch.cgi?country=United+States

these are for rocky mount (where i am)
ISS...Mon Oct 17/07:17 PM...5 min duration...82 max elevation...approach: 20 above SW...departure: 13 above NE

[Edited on October 16, 2011 at 11:09 PM. Reason : ]

10/16/2011 11:07:41 PM

I saw the moon this morning at 1030am

10/16/2011 11:09:13 PM

Just realized I missed the ISS. Watched jupiter all week in florida, super cool, and saw two amazing shooting stars.

One was during a kick ass thunderstorm on the ocean, we were on the beach watching the storm when I see the shooting star, it was magical!

10/16/2011 11:23:12 PM

What I like about the heavens-above site is that it gives the visible magnitudes, so I can compare it with the magnitude of visible stars I know, to determine whether or not I will be able to see it in the light-polluted city. It should be magnitude -3.5, so very visible.

Quote :

"at one extreme the Sun is magnitude (mag.) -27 and some of the faintest observed stars around mag. +24. The full moon is mag. -12.5, Sirius the brightest star in the night sky mag. -1.5, whilst the faintest stars visible to the naked eye under good conditions are around mag. +6. "

Here's what Raleigh should get:

Event Time Altitude Azimuth Distance (km)

Rises above horizon 19:14:31 -0° 228° (SW ) 2,228
Reaches 10° altitude 19:16:33 10° 228° (SW ) 1,387
Maximum altitude 19:19:39 88° 313° (NW ) 384
Enters shadow 19:22:46 10° 48° (NE ) 1,395

10/17/2011 7:09:51 AM

oh. well yeah that probably is useful. i'm in a small city & while we have light pollution it's not enough of a problem for something like this.

10/17/2011 6:20:02 PM

I just saw the everloving fuck out of some international space station.

10/17/2011 7:24:38 PM

That shit was bright, even shined through some patchy cloud cover.

10/17/2011 7:26:31 PM

i've seen the thing when it looked significantly brighter than venus.

10/18/2011 7:43:56 AM

ISS
Tue Oct 18/07:56 PM
3

20
18 above WNW 13 above N
ISS
Wed Oct 19/06:58 PM
3

42
36 above WNW 12 above NE
ISS
Thu Oct 20/07:36 PM
3

13
11 above NW 10 above N
ISS
Sun Oct 30/07:43 PM
< 1

10
10 above N 10 above N
ISS
Mon Oct 31/08:21 PM
< 1

10
10 above NNW 10 above NNW

[Edited on October 18, 2011 at 11:14 AM. Reason : ]

10/18/2011 11:14:01 AM

Is there anything super bright tonight? I see something that looks a heck of a lot like the ISS did (very bright large star) but it's not moving.

11/2/2011 6:56:35 PM

Looks like it's Jupiter. http://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/visible-planets-tonight-mars-jupiter-venus-saturn-mercury

11/2/2011 7:12:00 PM

why are the ISS passes so short (no longer than 5 mins at first glance)? and how can there be 2 passes within a 2-hour window?

11/2/2011 8:55:16 PM

Quote :

"The ISS is maintained in a nearly circular orbit with a minimum mean altitude of 278 km (173 mi) and a maximum of 460 km (286 mi), in the centre of the Thermosphere. It travels at an average speed of 27,724 kilometres (17,227 mi) per hour, and completes 15.7 orbits per day"

11/2/2011 9:11:39 PM

yeah, jupiter is very prominent right now.

oh, and i saw the moon at 3pm yesterday ha

11/3/2011 6:15:03 AM

11/3/2011 6:25:54 AM

^LOL

11/3/2011 9:39:05 AM

jupiter is still prominent in the sky... if you look to the east the star Sirius is bright and flickering like crazy tonight.

12/2/2011 10:45:56 PM

So is your mom's bean

12/2/2011 10:54:05 PM

YELLOW BLACK AND RED AND GREEN, PURPLE

12/3/2011 12:36:04 AM

12/3/2011 12:42:46 AM

i saw jupiter lookin all foxy this week

12/3/2011 3:44:41 PM