Does this bright star set about midnight? Well all summer long Jupiter has been shining very brightly in the southern sky. Just below Jupiter is the star Antares. They cross the sky together and set in the wsw about midnight. It's just a thought.

I've seen this object for the past month or so also (from the Uk) and I too assumed that it was Venus from my limited knowledge of astronomy.
Where are the subject matter experts when you need them? I'd quite like a definitive answer on this one, which I haven't seen yet.

If its visible tonight, I'll try to get a picture to show location relative to the moon.

[edit on 29-6-2008 by Chonx]

Venus, Mars, Jupiter are the suggestions

Nibiru/Comet are others


hmm i agree can someone who knows how to use a starmap program help us

is this VENUS???

why does it look really strange..

or thats what i feel.. or have felt everytime i looked at it..

like the light is somewhat blurred or there something in it that changes..

can this be rotation of a planet/moons is described above

i know in wich direction it is, because i live in a long street and its at the botton of this every night.

from a map i can tell that the street faces South East.

it comes by this street every night and stays there all night.


i dont know the exactly degree but something like 15-30 degrees above horizon

i live in copenhagen denmark

I'm living in Wales in the UK and last night I noticed a bright "Star" in the sky roughly South. It was above the hills behind a tall tree and was very bright, at first I could hardly see it, as it was behind the tree but as the tree was blowing in the wind I would get a glimpse of it.

About an hour later I looked and it was well above the tree and clearly visible. It was a bright yellow colour and not like any star, it seemed a lot closer than anything else in the sky and wasn't blinking like stars do. The moon wasn't visible from where I was (my flat window). I don't believe it was a UFO, but also I don't think it was a star. I've never noticed this before last night and will be checking if its there tonight.

Calm down people as mentioned before it's saturn. As for the reasoning behind why it will appear and disappear... with the naked human eye we are not always able to perceive changes in the Earth's atmosphere, even on the clearest nights cosmic particles can distort what you are seeing or obscure it completely for days or longer. If you want the clearest view possible head outside of whatever town or city you are near about 150-200 miles from anything and you will be able to see more stars than you can comprehend. Also for further viewing pleasure try star watching from atop a mountain or two, seems like you can almost grab them they're so close it's absolutely breath-taking. Happy sightings everyone.

The sky is never clear enough for me to see anything in Ireland! Its prob just some swamp gas reflecting off of a high altitude weather balloon coupled with the fact the the eh......ionisation of the....eh.... Its not Niburu! ok now believe what i tell you!

i saw it a few weeks back towards the south in the direction of the moon...i was watching it for about 10 minutes and saw it move quite a lot within 10 minutes..as in move like planets do.....i just came back from Greece last week and noticed it again but much brighter there and still just thought it was Mars until i came here and read this thread...not quite sure what to make of it but there must be someone in here that must know for sure what it is....I'll take a look again tonight and see if i can take a picture of it......

damn all this talkin about it and no one has pics yet? Ill see if i can get pics of it. I called my wife out to take a look as ive never noticed something that bright. Id hoped it was a supernova whos light finally reached us. There WAS word of a visible supernova but i cannot find the page so that might be something i will look into. Supernovas have often been thought to be the celestial visitors noted in texts throughout history (ie star of bethlehem) They appear suddenly and can remain in the sky for over a year in some cases.

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theres also been a lot of traffic on some nights in space. its just hard to decipher the real ufos (ones that move back and forth) from stars and other celestial bodies which just have a clear astro-path.

I have taken pictures of it, but they are very dark and you can only just about make out a white dot. I will post them if anyone thinks there of any use. Don't know if they could be enhanced.

They were taken on a 6 mega pixel camera on 6x optical zoom. Let me know if you want them, but don't think they would be much use. I'll try and get better images tonight.

i didn't take pictures because it was so obvious and also stayed there every night.. i thought it was nothing because nobody discussed it here at ATS.

but then again we had some clear skyes for a while i forgot that most of the world is covered in clouds these days, clear skies is something we should appreceate more.

i Should have take photos. or video

i almost did but again i thought that it was to obvious and people would laugh and say, hey you captured venus. way to go boy.

tonight i will try to picture it, but there is a lot of rainclouds today here in denmark

[edit on 29-6-2008 by skywatch]

Originally posted by narin
theres also been a lot of traffic on some nights in space. its just hard to decipher the real ufos (ones that move back and forth) from stars and other celestial bodies which just have a clear astro-path.

as far as i have noticed. the location of the star isnt within the ecliptic of the other planets. Its lower? (i think... ill bust out the star chart tonight too)

You know this whole Nibiru craze got out of hand when people are mistaking Venus and mars for nibiru.