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this is the brightest star from my back garden, its not the north star because the plough is on the other side of the house so does anybody know what it is? just interested that's all :)

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i know you can see planets with the naked eye but have never had one pointed out to me
 
The North Star's actually realtively faint; the best way to find it is by drawing a line from the end two stars of the Plough and Cassiopea, and where they intersect, the North Star is!

If it's to the opposite, then it could well be Betelguese, Rigel, Saturn or Mars. Is it in the Orion constellation or elsewhere?
 
The brightest "star" is generally not a star, it is actually Venus.

The easiest way to tell is if, when you look at it, it doesn't "twinkle" it is a planet. (I believe)
 
Venis is known as the "morning" or "evening" star as it best seen at those times.
 
Dan76 said:
The North Star's actually realtively faint; the best way to find it is by drawing a line from the end two stars of the Plough and Cassiopea, and where they intersect, the North Star is!

If it's to the opposite, then it could well be Betelguese, Rigel, Saturn or Mars. Is it in the Orion constellation or elsewhere?
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i knew it wasnt the north star for that reason so i was thinking is it a planet, thats why i posted, thanks for the info :thumbs:

Zaphod said:
The brightest "star" is generally not a star, it is actually Venus.

The easiest way to tell is if, when you look at it, it doesn't "twinkle" it is a planet. (I believe)
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barrypriddis said:
Venis is known as the "morning" or "evening" star as it best seen at those times.
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cool thanks for that :thumbs:
 
oops forgot to post the picture :cuckoo::bang::bonk:
 
i think with the lightness still in the sky, and the fact that that is so bright, i would say that is Venus
 
i haven't got a compass LOL but looking at google maps i would guess at WSW
 
http://www.heavens-above.com

Register with your location then click on Whole Sky Chart

You can info for all sorts of things in the sky at that site including ISS passes (it is bright)
 
had a look at the site and registered but it looks a bit complicated for a Sunday so will take another look next week, thanks for the link :thumbs:
 
Yep, it's Venus, it's in one of my 365 photo's fella.
I'm sure you've ben following it and it just slipped your mind ;)
 
lol sorry mate but 365's bore the life out of me :bonk: :D
 
Have a look at Stellarium.org, free planetarium software.
 
:D:D:D:thumbs:
 
Don't automatically assume that it's Venus. Jupiter is/was around somewhere looking equally big and bright.
 
Well if it is Venus, at least you didn't think it was a UFO like I did 2 years ago :lol:



You can click on it if you like, there is more info on the page, plus you can see it larger by clicking 'all sizes' just above the image.
 
Zaphod said:
The brightest "star" is generally not a star, it is actually Venus.

The easiest way to tell is if, when you look at it, it doesn't "twinkle" it is a planet. (I believe)
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It is the planet Venus - it is often visible just around sunrise or sunset and is always towards the Sun (it is inside our orbit - so it can't be on the opposite side of us from the Sun).

The light from any object in the heavens has to pass through our atmosphere - this is what causes twinkling. The lower the object is in the sky, the more atmosphere it's light passes through on it's journey to your eye, so the more it twinkles. Venus twinkles just like a star.

It is the third brightest object in the sky, after the Sun and the Moon and is always a beautiful sight. If you look at it through decent binoculars or a telescope you should be abe to see a crescent shape like a waxing or waning moon. *** PLEASE *** don't look at the Sun though!
 
It's Venus, it's not going to be Jupiter. That's too low down in the west at the moment. If you can get enough focal length on it, you can capture the phase (the inferior planets, those inside our orbit, show a phase much like the moon). Here's a shot I did at 12000mm (no errors in that, it's got the correct number of zero's), I haven't cropped it as I wanted to see what sort of image scale I'd get with the 450d... Technically, it's rubbish, not on the thirds or anything.

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