Do the stars look strange to you?

Thread: probably venus but weird

I had considered posting a thread, but thought it was too weird.

There is more to this story. I will post tomorrow if I get some answers. If not I will just keep the rest of the story to myself.

Your scope is out of collimation.

Stars looked fine tonight and were where they should be. My mount tracked fine as I took a couple series of images. Need to process them later this week and try to get some darks the next cloudy night.

Yeah did you try collimation? I forgot about that.

Thank you.

Agreed

Did they have artifical flavours preservatives?

But seriously. Time for me to buy a telescope

Im in SC too. I would go look but I dont feel like putting clothes on.

What kind of anomalies?

Sorry to correct you: It's not a matter of collimation, it's a matter of focus.





The pattern is called airy disk. It happens when a scope is way out of focus.
If in addition the dark spot is not centered in the airy disk it needs collimation. In that case most likely you have to send it to Meade.

If you don't know how to bring the scope into focus: RTFM

If you are just trolling: lame try.


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I work 3rd shift. I went out on my breaks at 1am, 2:30am, and 4am....each time noticed a very bright "star" - stayed in the same spot pretty much all night...."twinkled" a lot too.....just have never seen it before.....My guess what that's it is Venus but idk..just never saw it before.

This is Major Tom to Ground Control
I'm stepping through the door
And I'm floating in a most peculiar way
And the stars look very different today

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Ground Control to Major Tom
Take your **** pills and put your helmet on

There is like a lot more of them or something.

The stars are doing some weird things lately. Anybody have a link to an astronomy forum?

good point.

it could also be "the fluff," regardless of if you want to call it leaving an old area or moving into a new area.

it's possible, although highly unlikely, that our entire solar system is being "stolen" by another galaxy.

hell, anything is possible really...

I find it hard to care about, or take seriously, a thread from someone who cannot even spell the name of the city they claim to be from. Myrtal Beach? It's Myrtle Beach, idiot.

The Hubble space telescope surely proves this "going rate theory".

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The night before the attack on the twin towers I noticed that the stars seems much closer than usual. That has stuck in my mind ever since that night.

wow.

Really?

This has been a major topic on GLP forever, covered in the news media tons of times and you "guess" the "star" might be Venus?

I noticed this Moon shaped object about 7:00pm 5/20/12. I was taking pics of the planes leaving trails across the Sun when this object caught my eye. It looks like a small half Moon. Has anyone every noticed anything that looks like this. I had to zoom in to get the shape. These are just still shots although I also have a video of it. I could not tell it was moving and it was barely visible to me. The planes were laying down trails to cover the Sun when I noticed it.

Peace

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in georgia and 100% agree with you...i was saying to neighbor last nite that there are so many stars out lately but i dont see any constellations i recognize...and no moon here either!!

Glad that someone else has noticed the color of the sky being off...and that the constellations are not normal...I think it's pole shift or something

Yes, I know Venus has been discussed.......all I am saying is I've never noticed anything like it before...that's it.

eclipse?

Well, I don't know, but I can tell you, my hubby... the worlds greatest skeptic... had me come outside on Friday night to see the sky... He wanted verification about what he was seeing. I went out, and he pointed to 3 stars that had a red and yellow look to them... they were lined up in the sky from south to north and we didn't see one constelation we recognized.. and there were lots of stars. Very weird indeed.
And as a footnote.. my worlds greatest skeptic asked me to check GLP to see if anyone else was seeing what we were seeing... he usually rolls his eyes to the ceiling when I tell what I'm reading on GLP.. so this was monumental!

edit: we were camping in the North Whiteshell.. which is near the border of Ontario, in eastern, central Manitoba.

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We could not see the eclipse in my area. The Sun was still out and this object was not in the same location. This is way too far away to be the Moon although it looks like a Moon. I had to zoom way in to see the shape of this object. It is cloudy tonight and nothing is visible.

Peace to you and all

I know this is an old thread but, I'm outside and the stars look "strange". I am 100% sober and I have prefect vision. I'm working out in the mountains of West Virginia, and it's a clear night. A lot of the stars look "strange". They almost all seem to be 2 separate points of light with very thin red points on the tops and bottoms and even thinner blue lines in the middle. Other people here at work are seeing it too. Does anybody know what is going on?

Get stoned and do some drugs. It’ll be ok.

A little Bourbon wouldn’t hurt. too. :)

the sun is shining brighter thus the reflection is brighter.

Look at that blackness... you see any stars?
Because they aint real