Is this a Comet and large planet captured by the ISS?

The OP video says the ISS is over the North Pacific, but the footage being played is from over Iran.

www.planetary.org...

a reply to: MindBodySpiritComplex

That's why I brought it here, wasn't sure myself, but I know nothing slips pass you guys. I'm always late, lol. Still cool though if you ask me. All I ever saw was Halley back in 86 and assumed we wouldn't see anything like it until 2061 so this confused me. Thanks. Glad I didn't say it was aliens, lol.

Could it be the large asteroid, named 7335 (1989 JA), due to pass us on 5/27?


www.livescience.com...

a reply to: RealTruthSeeker

So clearly the object on the left is a comet I didn't know existed. But that doesn't solve what the object on the right is. Can anyone confirm that the object on the right is in fact a planet? If so, which one and why is it so close?

If the image is current, it would be... 45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdusakova

Matches the area, plus it was around magnitude 7

theskylive.com...|5.143159618734335|dec|23.764487641274084|fov|38

The planet is Venus.

The constellation to the north of it is Pleiades.

If you go to Stellarium:

stellarium-web.org...

and put the date in as July 5th 2020, with the time at around 01:30 (not sure if it's working on UTC or GMT+1 there - it could be looking at my computer clock) and the location at Tehran, all will be revealed.

a reply to: OneBigMonkeyToo

That would be right, and NEOWISE was in the constellation of Taurus at that time.

originally posted by: RealTruthSeeker
a reply to: MindBodySpiritComplex

That's why I brought it here, wasn't sure myself, but I know nothing slips pass you guys. I'm always late, lol. Still cool though if you ask me. All I ever saw was Halley back in 86 and assumed we wouldn't see anything like it until 2061 so this confused me. Thanks. Glad I didn't say it was aliens, lol.

So it’s a clip if Neowise from 2020, mystery solved it seems. However why do you state it was a NASA Live Stream in your opening post and YouTube video title? Or is the NASA live stream known to randomly show 2 year old footage on its feed?

At around the 3:10 mark of the video, a banner appears in upper r.h.s. of the screen that reads something like "Pre-recorded Video....There is a loss of signal".

So they must show interesting bits of past feeds when the live feed isn't available.

a reply to: SleeperHasAwakened

Gotcha that makes sense 👍

originally posted by: RealTruthSeeker
So clearly the object on the left is a comet I didn't know existed. But that doesn't solve what the object on the right is. Can anyone confirm that the object on the right is in fact a planet? If so, which one and why is it so close?

Well I believe you are looking at venus as you look towards the sun.


skyandtelescope.org...

Could the object on the right be Venus?

The bright object on the right is indeed Venus. I checked in Stellarium.

I hear what you guys are saying, but man, I'm not sure. The size of it is ridiculous, I understand the stars look bigger because of the atmosphere and what not, but that's a little to big. Hopefully someone got some stunning pics of it. Either way, I'm still scratching my head right now. Gonna dig deeper.

a reply to: RealTruthSeeker

Any photo of anything very bright in the night sky is always likely to be Venus or Jupiter.

It's not that it's very big, it's very bright. The exposure settings effectively make that brightness cover more of the image.

I posted a link to Stellarium and told you how to check it for yourself. That's all the digging you need to do.

a reply to: RealTruthSeeker

By way of illustration, this is also Venus photographed on a film camera by Apollo 16:

You nailed it
a reply to: MindBodySpiritComplex