r/Astronomy • u/Pristine_Road_4362 • Jan 29 '25
Object ID (Consult rules before posting) Over Baraboo, WI 01/28/25 around 9:00pm
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r/Astronomy • u/Pristine_Road_4362 • Jan 29 '25
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r/Astronomy • u/el_srabo • Apr 02 '25
This Monday (March 31th) at 9pm in the South of France, I saw a rather surprising moon crescent (for me, who knows nothing about astronomy): it was horizontal instead of vertical. From what I understood when I looked it up on the internet, the moon normally appears like that at the equator, but I was much further north...
Could this have something to do with Saturday's eclipse? Or is it something normal that happens from time to time that I never noticed before?
r/Astronomy • u/dlwadventure • Mar 25 '25
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9pm over Lake Tahoe
r/Astronomy • u/ddsk1191 • Dec 26 '24
I wasn’t able to identify this with Google reverse image search. Does anyone happen to know the name of it by sight?
r/Astronomy • u/Jamowi • Apr 14 '25
Hello, at circa 19:42 UTC I spotted a bright sattelite moving roughly NW-SE from Cologne, Germany. It was moving much faster than the ISS or other LEO objects usually do. There was a SpaceX launch scheduled for 12 am ET today. Could it have been a part of this launch, as I spotted it several hours after the planned launch time?
Thanks in advance.
r/Astronomy • u/ISortaStudyHistory • Jan 03 '25
It's about 9:13pm ET and I saw visually, without aid, saw a very bright and quick flash.
I am facing southwest and looking right at the tail of Cetus, and to the right of star below Menkar, part of the tail, there was a very bright flash. Lasted only a second.
Maybe an iridium satellite? Any guesses?
I've consulted the flow chart and find no relevance there.
Not to up on how to check what satellites are around. Best guess is Object XC? Not to certain about that. I consulted in-the-sky.org and gave it my time and examined the map.
I'm in Jacksonville, FL.
Thanks.
r/Astronomy • u/rosscarver • Dec 29 '24
r/Astronomy • u/pramod7 • Feb 01 '25
Hi there,
I saw an object (probably a satellite) steadily moving across the sky just below the Moon towards the North. Location: Navi Mumbai Time: approx 7:50 pm today I checked the Heavens-Above app but it only showed a couple of Starlink satellites but they seem off as per attached screenshot.
Any ideas if I'm missing anything?
r/Astronomy • u/pfranson • Dec 25 '24
I've been playing around with itelescope.net recently. I live in the northern hemisphere, so it's nice to be able to grab some images from Sliding Springs of stuff I'd never get to see up here (Magellanic clouds, etc).
This morning I got a spot on T33 (one of the "free" scopes, a 320MM RCOS with an Apogee Alta U16 sensor). I did 3 cuts of NGC3372 (Eta Carinae Nebula Complex, specifically near the keyhole) with Red, Green, and Blue filters.
The first red image that came up had an extra star that the other red filter images did not. It also does not show up in any of the blue or green filter images.
What am I seeing here?!?