If it's early evening then it's venus. If it's later it's Jupiter. The one I'm curious about is the big reddish one in the eastern sky that rises around 10:30 Pm CST after Orion and Mars. It has a bit more magnitude as Betelgeuse in Orion.

Originally posted by eywadevotee
If it's early evening then it's venus. If it's later it's Jupiter. The one I'm curious about is the big reddish one in the eastern sky that rises around 10:30 Pm CST after Orion and Mars. It has a bit more magnitude as Betelgeuse in Orion.

I love looking at Orion's Belt at night...the red/ orange-ish star is Beetlegeuse.

Originally posted by eywadevotee
If it's early evening then it's venus. If it's later it's Jupiter. The one I'm curious about is the big reddish one in the eastern sky that rises around 10:30 Pm CST after Orion and Mars. It has a bit more magnitude as Betelgeuse in Orion.

Hmmm. To answer your question first, I would have said Arcturus. Although the timing isn't quite right. In the mid-latitudes Arcturus is rising closer to Midnight right now. It is rising at about 10:30 at locations further to the North, but I'm talking about Northern Canada.

To tell you the truth, if you hadn't said "after Orion and Mars", I would have told you it was Mars, since Mars rises at about 10:30 right now for most of the U.S.

To verify if it Arcturus, you can see if the curved handle of the Big Dipper is pointing to it. The way to find Arcturus is to "Follow the arc to Arcturus", with the "arc" being the Big Dipper's handle. Arcturus is bright and reddish orange.

As for the OP, I'd say it was Venus. Venus has been in the SW sky in the evenings lately, after sunset. People may be just noticing it now because it was not there just a couple of months ago (well, it was there, but too close to the Sun when viewed from earth, so it was not really visible).

Originally posted by eywadevotee
If it's early evening then it's venus. If it's later it's Jupiter. The one I'm curious about is the big reddish one in the eastern sky that rises around 10:30 Pm CST after Orion and Mars. It has a bit more magnitude as Betelgeuse in Orion.

Maybe Procyon?
Or Aldebaran on the other side of Betelguese..

Originally posted by snowspirit

Originally posted by eywadevotee
If it's early evening then it's venus. If it's later it's Jupiter. The one I'm curious about is the big reddish one in the eastern sky that rises around 10:30 Pm CST after Orion and Mars. It has a bit more magnitude as Betelgeuse in Orion.

Maybe Procyon?
Or Aldebaran on the other side of Betelguese..

I considered Aldebaran, but he said it was rising "after Orion and Mars".

However, now that I think about it, perhaps the answer is that "eywadevotee" is mistaken about what he thinks is Mars. I think you (eywadevotee) are seeing Aldebaran and thinking it is Mars. Aldebaran is very bight, and reddish. It is located to the "upper right" of Orion.

So when you say the object in question was rising at 10:30 "after Orion and Mars", maybe you really mean it was rising at 10:30 "after Orion and Aldebaran".

That would make more sense, because then the object you see rising at 10:30 could then be Mars -- which is red, bright, rises in the east, and has been rising lately at about10:30.

I know which object in the sky you speak of. I've noticed for the last few years and it seems to be getting brighter. This particular object is now so bright that you can see it even when it is right next to a bright street light or the chemtrail haze is blocking the rest of the objects in the sky. This should be the sticking point. Some stars are brighter than others, but when one is so bright that you can see it even when nothing else in the sky is visible, then we have something to be concerned about.

This falls in the same category as chemtrails though. Even though it's something everyone can see for themselves, most will just look away because the truth is too scary.