if anyone has a telescope and the capability of taking some decent photos of this object and then uploading them please do so

i would personally like to see this through a telescope so i will know for absolute sure what were looking at here

I haven't seen this star myself, its visible in the northern hemisphere? I doubt people are here just making a big deal over Venus. Well some of them are but i'm sure some of the people here are legit.

This "strange star" seems to coincide with Nibiru theory, from what i've read it doesn't act like a star and could be a planet. Anyone find it interesting that these are the "end times" and Lucifer (Venus) shines so bright over us.

How long has this been observed for? I haven't noticed anyting unually in the sky but then again I'm near detroit, it seems to been cloudy for the last 3 months lol.

It is a bit worrisome because I just went to one of my amature astronomy forums and none of them seem to know what it is.

This is one persons account of it...

You can see it about 30 minutes after sunset for about an hour . . .
. . . It has been out for the last month or two at the same spot every night. . . .
. . . This "object" will pulsate for about an hour and then vanish from plain sight. It is reddish orange. . . .
. . . It's the pulsation that is odd-not regular and not moving. . . .
. . . When I searched online-people from the NE, SW and Canada have reported it as well. It pulsates and then dies out and then comes back and then dies out for good. It disappears before total dark. (around 8pm here) . . .
. . . It was brighter than Venus at times. Then it would get as dim as 4 or 5 mag. It would last for about 3 hours and vanish for the night. .

I had one idea though as I was writing this. Could it be the debre left over from the recent satellite collision. I guess that would be easy to find out assuming when the collision happened and when people started seeing this light.

From here in Scotland i've been noticing it getting brighter for a long while. I use Stellarium and it tells me it's Venus.

I hear from Nasa that all the solar planets are experiencing climate change, getting warmer and brighter.

In addition, Sirius has also been rather bright, and my gf says it's flashing red and blue (am colourblind myself).

We get good clear night skies here a lot of the year. Wonderful for a stargazer like me.

First of all when starting a topic like this please know something about stars, ive talked to and met people that didnt know stars change with the seasons because of the location of the earth in its orbit. i hate when someone says the stars look different tonight no last night u looked at the stars at 7pm its 4am they moved "stars dont move" he says god people need to learn lol. anyway its venus i check different people accounts using stellarium and starry night both confirm its venus. yes its brighter then usuall but its also getting very close to earth and the closer it gets befor its at its maximum closes the brightness will vary and get brighter. it is a sight to behold much like mars was super bright about 2 years ago. but long story short it is venus, and i love how people take pictures of "stars and planets just high enough so that we cant see any other stars the pics are always of the horizon never the sky god people. peace

Originally posted by Sergeant Stiletto
Well...I'm in the U.S. and my house faces due west and right now I can look out of my front door and see a very big - something - that does not twinkle. I mean it's big.

I'm under the impression that Venus is an early evening star, so I don't think that's it.

Does anyone else see what I'm talking about? I never noticed this until about four or five months ago.

I have been looking at this object every single night since the end of November. That is the first time that I noticed it and it was so big and bright that I called my mother and brother out to see it. They too were a bit amazed at the object and neither could decide what it is.

I have been making it a routine of looking at this object every night just to see what is going to happen with it.

Some nights it is bigger than others but it is always very bright.

Must people on ATS think that it is Venus and I would have no problem accepting that if it were not for some of the other characteristics of Venus that they share that does not support the way this object behaves.

I don't believe that is some kind of a UFO. If it were then I guess it would be safe to say that it has taken up residence in our sky. I don't know what it is and I too would like some consistent and professional reporting on this matter.

Originally posted by aboveus87

Originally posted by AngelInterceptor
Does it look like this?

Picture removed. See picture on page 8 of this thread posted by me.

Wow

Yes, it looks like that one.

I have left both quotes in to highlight a point. The picture that aboveus87 agreed looked like the object they had seen was a picture of Venus taken approximately 3 years ago when it was in conjunction with other planets. (not to be seen in this photograph, but I have others show it quite well.)

It was BRIGHT. It was LARGE. But it was still VENUS.

I'd say that a great many people here need to learn more to understand the solar system and the movement of the planets.

I'm not an avid skywatcher- since I have lived in a city for almost forever- but I have seen this thing as well. Let's say it's Venus. Is there a scientific article stating why it's so danged bright? I mistook the 'object' (for lack of a better term) for a slow moving plane. it gave every indication of behaving like a plane with the landing lights on. Like I said- I am not an 'avid' sky watcher, but I know my night sky- it's like looking at the back of your hand. You know there's bones, ligaments, flesh- you know where they are... you just cant name them. This thing is unfamiliar to me.

IF it's Venus- why is it reflecting nearly 100% or more of it's light? It's a comparable, Earth sized object 20 million miles away. Yes, it's shrouded in clouds- but unless Venus now has a healthy helping of dissolved metals in it's cloud composition, it cant reflect as much/ more light than it receives. Even mirrors dont throw back 100% of the light they get. For a comparison, There's a picture somewhere on Nasa's Big catalog O Mars Crap of a pic one of the rovers, I believe, took of the Earth from Mars. I think that pic needs to be found, and compared to the object everyone's been seeing. I'd like to see if it's as bright. From what I can remember of the pic, I think it was pretty hard to make us out. As a planet.

If it isnt cloudy tomorrow night, I am going to try to get a bearing of where the object is in relation to where I see it. If all else fails, a pic of where I live, (Google Earth), with hopefully a compass showing which way is which, and I will simply draw a line of viewing angle.

On a related note- is it me, or has the moon been brighter than usual, too.................?