OutSky
Jedi Master
Yesterday at noon I saw a magnificent eagle resting at the top of a pine in my garden. Never had I seen a bird as such this one before. He or she was all black, something around 27 inch size (70 cm) but a bright yellow beak. An intense sun contrasting at a clear blue sky reflected in his feathers producing brilliance over his whole body. The creature was alighted between eastern and southern directions, more to east I’d say. And interesting his position kind of coincided with that other thing that I will describe next.
All my life I liked to lazily observe the sky and then it has been since five nights ago I noticed an unknown luminous object which appears every night in the east and sets in west as any regular celestial body. When this object rises, I see it in the opposite direction to what i think is Jupiter, and then Jupiter is near the setting horizon, i.e. west. I’ve mentioned Jupiter also because the object has apparently the same size and brightness or I’d say a little more luminous than Jupiter. It exhibits a strong yellow-orangish color, which is constant from the rising until its setting, i.e.no variations of hue or color during his transition on the celestial vault. The strange object has a constant brightness, i.e. it doesn’t glimmer or sparkle, also it seems spherical, i.e. not a tale apparently. Therefore I guess could be a planet but not an active star. Once with a 30x binoculars I observed what seemed faint moons around it but I am not sure about this, could be just faded stars.
Among my suppositions I would say it is not Mars because I saw Mars a number of times, and Mars is faint and much smaller than this object. Therefore unless Mars is suffering some kind of massive explosion, this cannot be. How about Saturn? Could be Saturn? A comet? Jupiter indeed? Any ideas?
All my life I liked to lazily observe the sky and then it has been since five nights ago I noticed an unknown luminous object which appears every night in the east and sets in west as any regular celestial body. When this object rises, I see it in the opposite direction to what i think is Jupiter, and then Jupiter is near the setting horizon, i.e. west. I’ve mentioned Jupiter also because the object has apparently the same size and brightness or I’d say a little more luminous than Jupiter. It exhibits a strong yellow-orangish color, which is constant from the rising until its setting, i.e.no variations of hue or color during his transition on the celestial vault. The strange object has a constant brightness, i.e. it doesn’t glimmer or sparkle, also it seems spherical, i.e. not a tale apparently. Therefore I guess could be a planet but not an active star. Once with a 30x binoculars I observed what seemed faint moons around it but I am not sure about this, could be just faded stars.
Among my suppositions I would say it is not Mars because I saw Mars a number of times, and Mars is faint and much smaller than this object. Therefore unless Mars is suffering some kind of massive explosion, this cannot be. How about Saturn? Could be Saturn? A comet? Jupiter indeed? Any ideas?
