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Lights in the sky
eastforker ^ | 09/27/10 | eastforker

Posted on 09/27/2010 6:31:47 PM PDT by eastforker

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To: eastforker

Jupiter is bright in the sky right now, and has a bit of an odd color, especially just above the horizon. Look at it through some binoculars and see if there are any little ‘white dots’ around it. Those would be its moons.


21 posted on 09/27/2010 6:46:16 PM PDT by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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To: catfish1957

There is this newfangled thingy called a camera! you should get a picture!

(just razzing ya!)


22 posted on 09/27/2010 6:46:16 PM PDT by Mr. K (GO! PALADINO FOR GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK!)
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To: eastforker

Sounds like the northern lights we see in Minnesota, but you’re not, well....north. Strange.


23 posted on 09/27/2010 6:46:49 PM PDT by mplsconservative (I stand with Israel.)
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To: The Comedian

I know what that is, seen it before, believe it or not those are ice crystals.


24 posted on 09/27/2010 6:47:17 PM PDT by eastforker (.If you design an idiot proof gadget, society will just build a better idiot!)
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To: Senator Pardek

Geepers... I thought they would have a meeting at Devil’s Tower, WY... What’s with this Houston stuff?


25 posted on 09/27/2010 6:47:22 PM PDT by BigEdLB (Now there ARE 1,000,000 regrets - but it may be too late.)
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To: The Comedian

That is a sun dog - ordinary weather phenomena


26 posted on 09/27/2010 6:48:18 PM PDT by BigEdLB (Now there ARE 1,000,000 regrets - but it may be too late.)
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To: catfish1957

Well if your in Beaumont it’s up there a ways then.


27 posted on 09/27/2010 6:49:29 PM PDT by eastforker (.If you design an idiot proof gadget, society will just build a better idiot!)
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28 posted on 09/27/2010 6:50:46 PM PDT by Senator Pardek
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To: eastforker

Could be a sundog.


29 posted on 09/27/2010 6:51:33 PM PDT by mtg
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To: eastforker

Maybe 35 degrees off horizon


30 posted on 09/27/2010 6:51:55 PM PDT by catfish1957 (Hey algore...You'll have to pry the steering wheel of my 317 HP V8 truck from my cold dead hands)
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To: KoRn
Jupiter is bright in the sky right now...

That would be my bet. Sounds like about the right position in the sky for where Jupiter is right now.

31 posted on 09/27/2010 6:53:12 PM PDT by Wissa (Gone Galt)
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To: The Comedian

interesting.


32 posted on 09/27/2010 6:53:29 PM PDT by Quix (PAPAL AGENT DESIGNEE: Resident Filth of non-Roman Catholics; RC AGENT DESIGNATED: "INSANE")
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To: Wissa

Like I said, saw the same thing about seven months ago, didn’t know what it was then either


33 posted on 09/27/2010 6:55:24 PM PDT by eastforker (.If you design an idiot proof gadget, society will just build a better idiot!)
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To: mtg

Nope I know what a sun dog is.


34 posted on 09/27/2010 6:56:34 PM PDT by eastforker (.If you design an idiot proof gadget, society will just build a better idiot!)
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To: Senator Pardek

That is my view on the way to work every day. I turn right on Milam just in front of the tower.


35 posted on 09/27/2010 6:56:43 PM PDT by FlyingEagle
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To: eastforker
I know what that is, seen it before, believe it or not those are ice crystals.

Oh I believe it. And it was probably coincidental anyway.

Can you stick a phone cam out the window and spare us a wee peek?

Or maybe a more detailed description. Could it be lasers? Reflecting emergency lights? An outdoor rave or sports event? Swamp gas?


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

36 posted on 09/27/2010 6:58:30 PM PDT by The Comedian
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To: The Comedian

I think maybe another poster might be right saying it could be jupiter, iam still watching it though.Mostly white now but now and then it still twinks color.


37 posted on 09/27/2010 7:01:33 PM PDT by eastforker (.If you design an idiot proof gadget, society will just build a better idiot!)
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To: The Comedian
I grew up near Alcoa Tenn. I remember as a kid mid to late 70’s strangely colored test clouds coming from Alcoa. We would get warnings on the news so the people did not panic.
38 posted on 09/27/2010 7:02:45 PM PDT by Lady Heron
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To: eastforker
I think maybe another poster might be right saying it could be jupiter

Have you tried to look at it with binoculars (at least 7x50s)? Right now (Monday evening around 9pm central time), three moons are on the north side of the planet (left side) and one on the right.
39 posted on 09/27/2010 7:06:23 PM PDT by plsvn
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To: eastforker

Just went out and looked. {extreme SE Kansas}

I see a very bright planet at about 120 degrees on my compass. {east/southeast}

I estimate the elevation to be about 20 degrees above the horizon.


40 posted on 09/27/2010 7:10:52 PM PDT by labette ( Humble student of Thinkology)
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