Strange Light over Gainesville, FL

Hi all,




First time poster, long time reader. I recorded something a bit odd tonight and would like your feedback. Is it a satellite? Weather balloon? Planet? I posted the shorter of two videos on YouTube. www.youtube.com.... The first, which is the longer of the two videos, is uploading now and should be available soon.

Thanks for your time & comments!

Cheers,
Steve

[edit on 4-2-2009 by stevewaugh76]

damn i think its venus I was hoping for a green m&M
Sorry just looking at florida, there is somrthing right on top of you.....
Time of this would be helpful.......

I recorded it earlier tonight at 8:30PM.

reply to post by stevewaugh76


To eliminate it being Venus/ISS etc can you provide a few things?

Your location
The direction of the object
and the time you filmed it.



Cheers!

Its an M&M!
Nah just overjealous, and gots the munchies......
3rd line

I'm in Gainesville, FL (map). I was recording towards the North. It was 8:30PM and I recorded two videos. The first was 8 minutes and the second was 2 minutes.

Strike that. I was recording to the West. You can see on the map that the street goes East to West. Definitely towards the West.

Venus would be about 35-40 degrees up in the SW. sky from there.....
DARN....M&M's would have been nice

Hmmm Venus was in the sky to the west but it would have set by 8:30 your time. Or I've got my timezones mixed up

So you shot this nearly 2 1/2 hours ago? or longer?

[edit on 3-2-2009 by Chadwickus]

It's 11:54PM here now, so I shot it just over 3 hours ago.

I'm 250-400 west of you, venus is just now out of site....

reply to post by stevewaugh76



Cool! I was an hour off my timezone calculations

So I'd say it's Venus:




Stellarium is a good site for this sorta thing.

Hmm, that sounds reasonable enough. Thanks for sharing your thoughts on the matter!

[edit on 3-2-2009 by stevewaugh76]

Originally posted by stevewaugh76
It's 11:54PM here now, so I shot it just over 3 hours ago.

Isnt Venus much closer to the line of sight to the moon?, and secondly isnt Venus set by 19:30? Unless the ISS has an invisible anchour, does it not move freely through space in its own orbit? I dont want to be the guy to ruin anything but You may well have captured something mate. When you zoom in you can see texture in the light as well. One would think that object would have to be pretty close to the earth for that. AND, if it were venus, How is it oyu are just now noticing it in familiar skies?

No worries it's Tebow ascending...