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C21H30O2I
It is Venus! It has been super bright. Also, the star Antares not to far from Venus was glowing and doing it's color changes in August through October. The star Capella in the NE has been bright also, around sunset.
StoutBroux
C21H30O2I
It is Venus! It has been super bright. Also, the star Antares not to far from Venus was glowing and doing it's color changes in August through October. The star Capella in the NE has been bright also, around sunset.
If it's Venus, it's strange because supposedly it doesn't have a moon. I was looking at it yesterday South Westerly and I could clearly see what looked like a moon over and a tad to the left but behind it with my own eyes. What ever it is looks like three bright balls clumped together in a triangle and extremely bright. I don't have a camera that will photograph it so I'm stuck with my own viewpoint with nothing to share.
wmd_2008
reply to post by fenian8
Rather sad user name you picked.
StoutBroux
If it's Venus, it's strange because supposedly it doesn't have a moon. I was looking at it yesterday South Westerly and I could clearly see what looked like a moon over and a tad to the left but behind it with my own eyes. What ever it is looks like three bright balls clumped together in a triangle and extremely bright. I don't have a camera that will photograph it so I'm stuck with my own viewpoint with nothing to share.
JadeStar
#1. If Venus had a moon, even a large one as big as the Earth's moon you wouldn't beable to see it with your naked eye or even a pair of binoculars.
#2. What you took to be a "moon" most likely was a background star many light years away from Venus and our whole solar system.
#3. Give me the precise time and precise location and I will tell you what star you saw near it.edit on 21-11-2013 by JadeStar because: (no reason given)
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StoutBroux
If it's Venus, it's strange because supposedly it doesn't have a moon. I was looking at it yesterday South Westerly and I could clearly see what looked like a moon over and a tad to the left but behind it with my own eyes. What ever it is looks like three bright balls clumped together in a triangle and extremely bright. I don't have a camera that will photograph it so I'm stuck with my own viewpoint with nothing to share.
JadeStar
#1. If Venus had a moon, even a large one as big as the Earth's moon you wouldn't beable to see it with your naked eye or even a pair of binoculars.
#2. What you took to be a "moon" most likely was a background star many light years away from Venus and our whole solar system.
#3. Give me the precise time and precise location and I will tell you what star you saw near it.edit on 21-11-2013 by JadeStar because: (no reason given)
JadeStar:
I agree that 'StoutBroux' was probably looking at another star in the background -- possibly Sigma Sagitarrii (σ Sgr), also known as 'Nunki', which is a visible star that was near Venus on the night in question.
However, if Venus had a Moon, it could very possibly be visible with a pair of binoculars (although that may depend on the size of that Moon).
For example, Jupiter is much farther away than Venus is, and its four main moons (Callisto, Europa Ganymede, and Io) are are visible from Earth with a relatively modest pair of binoculars. I can see them with my 16X binoculars. Galileo, who discovered Jupiter's moons, used a telescope that had only a 20X magnification.