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mahatmakanejeeves

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4. Then it wasn't Venus.

Reply to elleng (Reply #2)

Wed Aug 10, 2022, 03:19 PM

Aug 2022

It's August, so the sun rises in the northeast. Jupiter or Mars, maybe? A star?

Hey, I think I know what you were looking at. In August, we begin the see the constellations of winter. You might have been looking at Aldebaran. That's to the southeast at dawn now. Can you see the Pleiades?

A plane will be illuminated by sunlight, so it will appear yellowish. A star will be bluish-white.

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Pre-dawn Venus, I think [View all] elleng Aug 2022 OP

If you were looking northeast, that's what it was. mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2022 #1

Looking south east-ish, elleng Aug 2022 #2

Then it wasn't Venus. mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2022 #4

Definitely Venus DarthDem Aug 2022 #3

Thanks. Thought so, but didn't catch later/closer to sun-rise. elleng Aug 2022 #6

Sky Safari says: usonian Aug 2022 #5

After I posted, the more I thought about it, the more I thought it was Sirius too. mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2022 #7

Yeah, this is probably right DarthDem Aug 2022 #8

In the DC area, Jupiter transits at about 3:00 a.m. right now. mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2022 #9

I went out this morning, Thursday, August 18, 2022, at 5:26 a.m. mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2022 #10

GREAT! elleng Aug 2022 #11

Friday morning, 3:25 a.m. mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2022 #12

Must have been cloudy here tho said 'clear,' saw only maybe a star or so @ 4 a.m., no moon! elleng Aug 2022 #13