Space station?

[(((Fergus)))]

What is that mega-bright "star" currently in the southern sky, a few degrees to east? It's much brighter than the normal stars. Is it the space station??

[barcahibs]

brightest star in the sky just now is jupiter i think? Though its more to the south than the east.
You can see the space station occasionaly but its not very bright and its pretty fast moving it would visibly move as you watched it

On a similiar but different note, i just saw a ufo while driving down the m8, bright white light moving very fast horizontally over the road. All i can think of is someone firing rockets over the road but it was in the middle of nowhere at midnight on a sunday seems a bit of an odd thing to do!

[(((Fergus)))]

brightest star in the sky just now is jupiter i think? Though its more to the south than the east.
You can see the space station occasionaly but its not very bright and its pretty fast moving it would visibly move as you watched it

On a similiar but different note, i just saw a ufo while driving down the m8, bright white light moving very fast horizontally over the road. All i can think of is someone firing rockets over the road but it was in the middle of nowhere at midnight on a sunday seems a bit of an odd thing to do!

Cheers. It was definitely south, just a few degrees to east and not really moving. Incredibly bright though.

[hibbytam]

Here's something that's quite cool. from the nasa website. http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/tracking/index.html

[Andy74]

Cheers. It was definitely south, just a few degrees to east and not really moving. Incredibly bright though.

Do you have an iphone? A couple of great apps that you hold up to the sky and they show you what you are looking at.

[khib70]

Do you have an iphone? A couple of great apps that you hold up to the sky and they show you what you are looking at.
If he could afford an i phone, he'd probably be able to launch his own space mission to investigate it.:greengrin

[barcahibs]

Cheers. It was definitely south, just a few degrees to east and not really moving. Incredibly bright though.

Sorry I misread your OP, I thought you said it was in the East. If its in the South east then its Jupiter. I've noticed it myself the last few nights, its been incredibly bright.

Supposedly if you have a look through a good pair of binoculars you should be able to pick out some of its moons, I haven't tried myself but I keep meaning to.

As others have said theres quite a few programmes out there that'll identify things in the sky for you. Stellarium is one for your pc thats available online for free - its legit, its supposed to be free :greengrin - I got my copy via the OU and use it all the time. Its pretty cool, though not very portable :greengrin

[(((Fergus)))]

Sorry I misread your OP, I thought you said it was in the East. If its in the South east then its Jupiter. I've noticed it myself the last few nights, its been incredibly bright.

Supposedly if you have a look through a good pair of binoculars you should be able to pick out some of its moons, I haven't tried myself but I keep meaning to.

As others have said theres quite a few programmes out there that'll identify things in the sky for you. Stellarium is one for your pc thats available online for free - its legit, its supposed to be free :greengrin - I got my copy via the OU and use it all the time. Its pretty cool, though not very portable :greengrin

Cheers!

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If he could afford an i phone, he'd probably be able to launch his own space mission to investigate it.:greengrin

:agree:

If I had a pound eveytime someone called me a **** I'd have enough to buy an iPhone

Have our Dunfermline posters seen anything lately :greengrin

[grunt]

Wow

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11213528 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11213528)