Large bright white object in souther hemisphere Australia

I can see it. It is brighter than than the pointers to the southern cross, which are usually the brightest. Nice job picking it out, I will keep an eye on it.

reply to post by ellbell


Are you Sirius?

I just went out and had a look and surprise surprise its complete cloud cover.....again. It really gives me the $hit$, I was out there about an hour ago with my telescope and enjoying the view of Saturn on what was a beautiful clear night.

reply to post by dreamfox1


tinypic.com...

Originally posted by Tahnya86
reply to post by Misterlondon

 

I really dont think astronimers would tell if nibiru was out there, or they are allowed to, serriosley, this isnt a debate about nibirus existance is a question about a object in the sky.

There are millions of amateur astronomers in the world, that are people just like you and I who do this for a hobby, I'm sure there are hundreds or thousands that use this site.. Why wouldn't they tell everyone? And exactly who is going to tell them not to?
And as for saying it is not a debate about nibiru, why don't you reply to the posters above that mentioned it.. I am answering their point..
(they mention planet x just a different name for nibiru)

Thank you for the picture, but on the basis of the picture you have taken, I can´t see where this object might be positioned.
Can you take another one? Where we can clearly see where this star is?

I did see this earlier and thought it was sirius. It was bright but did not stand out as much as it appears to in your photo.

reply to post by Chadwickus


reply to post by Tahnya86

The big dipper (Orion) is to the west. And Betelgeuse is to the right of it. Sirius is above it and Rigel is to the left.

umm freinds... you're confusing me:
the big dipper [ursa major] is in the northern quadrant [and i don't think it's visible in oz] , or is Orion called that down under?

OP perhaps you need to be more specific about what part of the sky this object is in

Here you go, I took and croped it for you..
Hope you dont mind, just to show people what your talking about...if some missed it

reply to post by DerepentLEstranger


Yeah Ursa Major isn't viewable from Australia.

Pretty sure we call the big dipper Orion here....let me double check that though...

Yep pretty sure what the OP is talking about is what we call the big dipper/shopping trolley/saucepan.

Didn't know it had a different name in the northern hemisphere.

reply to post by Chadwickus


yeh thats what we call it, us aussies are funny like that lol, the photo has been zoomed in on my samsung galaxy S, i was surprised i got the pic to be honest haha but thats magnification,but still this thing is like the brightest star up there, or what ever it is, but i did not notice it flickering, where rotating fast doen here in aus because i went out later and it had moved with quite a fare distance along with orion aka the dipper.

reply to post by Chadwickus


Big_Dipper

The Plough or the Big Dipper or the Saptarshi is an asterism of seven stars that has been recognized as a distinct grouping in many cultures from time immemorial. The component stars are the seven brightest of the formal constellation Ursa Major.

The Plough is significant because the North Star (Polaris), the current northern pole star on Earth, can be found using it. Polaris is part of the"Little Dipper", Ursa Minor.


In both Ireland and Great Britain, this pattern is known as the Plough or sometimes the Saucepan. It is also occasionally referred to as the Butcher's Cleaver in northern England. In Ireland the figure is sometimes called the Starry Plough and has been used as a political symbol. Known as Charles his waine in some areas of England, it was formerly called by the old name Charles' Wain[1] ("wain" meaning "wagon," and derived from the still older Carlswæn), as it still is in Scandinavia, Karlavagnen, Karlsvogna, or Karlsvognen. In the northeast of England it is sometimes known as Charlie's Waggon. A folk etymology holds that it was named after Charlemagne, but this common Germanic name meant the men's wagon (the churls' wagon), in contrast to the women's wagon (the Little Dipper).[2][3] An older Odin's Wain may have preceded these Nordic designations.[1] Similarly, in Romanian and most Slavic languages it is known as "the Great Wagon", as opposed to "the Small Wagon," the Little Dipper. In German it is called Großer Wagen (Great Cart).

Ursa_Major=[the great bear]

hmm the pic on wiki doesn't show all the stars:

reply to post by Tahnya86


i see "typical" aussie perversity to confuse the poms, i suppose.

also a trait i find extremely irritating in aussies, cubans and texans

but why? it Orion doesn't look like a dipper

any luck pointing it out on a star map?

being from the northern hemisphere myself [formerly NYC, currently PR] my knowledge of the southern sky is a bit sketchy.

the brightest stars there would be Sirius and Canopus.

Canopus (α Car, α Carinae, Alpha Carinae) is the brightest star in the southern constellation of Carina and Argo Navis, and the second brightest star in the night-time sky, after Sirius. Canopus's visual magnitude is −0.72, and it has an absolute magnitude of −5.53.

unless S Doradus in the Larger Magellanic Cloud just went Supernova [relative to earth]

S Doradus is the brightest star in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite of the Milky Way. A hypergiant, it is one of the most luminous stars known (sometimes more luminous than −10 absolute magnitude), but so far away that it is invisible to the naked eye.

hmm this is from sydney observatory :


eastern sky for march 2011 [from southern sky watch site]
home.mira.net...

aha!!! april 2011 night sky map [pdf] courtesy of Sydney Observatory hope this is of help

www.sydneyobservatory.com.au...


ohh
more than 20min looking for a decent map and you're both offline.
i feel like right tit now

reply to post by DerepentLEstranger


I've circled our "big dipper" which is part of Orion.

I may be wrong with the nickname, because the OP said he saw it in the eastern sky whereas Orion is in the western sky...

[atsimg]http://files.abovetopsecret.com/images/member/133aab69c1b7.png[/atsimg]

I want to know more about this. F and S!

reply to post by Chadwickus


ah, i see it's an asterism then, and not the complete constellation thanks for clearing hat up

hopefully OP will be by soon and we'll get to the bottom of this. [one hopes]

cheers.

Originally posted by VenomVile.6
Here you go, I took and croped it for you..
Hope you dont mind, just to show people what your talking about...if some missed it

I have seen the same object, is it not Venus?

Originally posted by thorazineshuffle

Originally posted by VenomVile.6
Here you go, I took and croped it for you..
Hope you dont mind, just to show people what your talking about...if some missed it

I have seen the same object, is it not Venus?

well they sure told me my pic below was Venus
[atsimg]http://files.abovetopsecret.com/images/member/c474a1c87de6.jpg[/atsimg]
in this thread
www.abovetopsecret.com...

Originally posted by YourPopRock
What is the giant orange "W"???
That scares me more than any white dot in the sky!!!

OMG !!!!
You found the W that was missing from the White House
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