Can someone please go look at Sirius for me??, page 2
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reply posted on 12-1-2012 @ 08:47 PM by GBP/JPY
reply to post by AnonyJai
....yes , Sirius is as bright as Jupiter , which is bright these days , too
and those two corner stars ...Beetle and the opposite corner....kitty corner.....are an awesome color.




reply posted on 12-1-2012 @ 09:05 PM by AnonyJai
reply to post by MalusLupus


Your right it is red, great link. Bookmarked!

Thanks



reply posted on 12-1-2012 @ 09:07 PM by AnonyJai
reply to post by greeneyedleo


Thanks so much! I'm stacking up quite a pile of reading material here. haha - And no I didn't think you sounded rude at all but thanks for clarifying anyway.


reply posted on 13-1-2012 @ 07:18 PM by Frira
Just wanted to reinforce GreenEyedLeo's post: Stellarium.

I use it several times a week (including, "I wonder what satellite I watched passing south at seven o'clock last night?"). I live near downtown in a fair sized city, so my telescope is in storage (Dear God, please get me out of this city!) and Stellarium keeps me mindful of what I am missing-- sort of a like self-induced torture.

So, to recap--

Sirius is the brightest star in the sky. And seemed tome to be unusually bright lately-- p[probably because of the better and clearer air of late.

Jupiter has been brilliant for months-- Venus showing off as well. Mars come up just before the moon tonight.

In Orion, Betelgeuse is the reddish one, and Rigel is catty-cornered (how we say it in Texas) across Orion's Belt from Betelgeuse.

You know about the Great Orion Nebula, right? Look near the middle "star" (it is really a bunch of them) of Orion's scabbard hanging from his belt. Decent scopes and even astronomical binoculars may produce a satisfying "Wow!"

Lastly, when describing the sky, terms like "Southwest" instead of "lower left" (and such) will negate confusion introduced by variances of local time, orientation and longitude of other observers.


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reply posted on 13-1-2012 @ 08:26 PM by ignorant_ape
reply to post by AnonyJai


appologies about that, someone pulled the knob off the dimmer switch - it should be fixed soon


reply posted on 16-1-2012 @ 03:21 PM by artistpoet
Originally posted by Starwise
reply to post by AnonyJai


No, not abnormally.Its usually the brightest star(s) in the night sky compared to Jupiter or Venus. Oh and I just got the book Sirius Mystery by Robert Temple, so far very awesome
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Yes that is a very interesting book you mention
Happy reading


reply posted on 19-3-2012 @ 04:42 PM by BelieverInAllThings
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I'm really glad I stumbled upon this post. I too noticed this unusual brightness as did my father. I had taken my telescope out to try to see Mars, and when I went to the other side of my porch WOW. I am good with astronomy and I definitely know Sirius and have seen it before, but that night it was just AMAZINGLY bright. It was actually so bright that I ran inside and told everyone to come out and look because I thought it might be something other than what it was. The only way I can describe it is that it looked to me like it had got unusually close to Earth because it also looked bigger. It was literally like someone was shining a spotlight from just outside the atmosphere... it was crazy. Thanks for posting this thread, I look forward to reading the replies.
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