Bright star in the East...

[Anybodyhome]

"Sirius is a brightest star..."

Wow, thought Sirius was the radios in my cars.... dude, are you sure? Or do I have a star in my car?

[Darth Biscuit]

It's probably Jupiter, I had my astronomy lab on Monday night and Jupiter was by far the brightest thing in the sky (aside from the moon obviously)

This... we saw it last weekend and looked it up on Google Sky.

[KillerKat]

I used to think Jupiter was Venus...until one mourning I saw an object 3 times the size..said to myself, well damn...can't be Venus I had previously thought. Looked up Jupiter being 2nd most visible. It was December when I saw it around 4am....usually Venus is near the Sun....when you can see it before sunrise.

The hotter, orange star in Orion's shoulder will be as bright as the moon one day..maybe brighter.

It's awesome the fact that when we see stars twinkle, we're looking back in time. Takes hundreds of years for that light to reach our eyes.

You saw Venus in December?....Isn't Mars an orange color too? If so, how would I tell the difference in what I'm seeing?

[necroplasm]

You saw Venus in December?....Isn't Mars an orange color too? If so, how would I tell the difference in what I'm seeing?

You'll know Venus...it's really big and brilliant. I have only seen it a couple of times since. I think Mars is really tiny...I haven't really looked for it.

Sometimes you can see Venus in the evening at Sunset. I can't, because we're surrounded by trees, lol. I've only seen Venus in the Winter, early in the mourning before dawn.

Here, download this program off this site.... http://www.stellarium.org/

Just hit tab with what OS you use and wahlaa

Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope.

It is being used in planetarium projectors. Just set your coordinates and go.

It will help. It's tricky to control at first but you'll get the hang of it.