Unexplained Celestial Observations – Page 2 – National Radio Astronomy Observatory

Jupiter in the Night Sky over New York City in Late September 2020?

As there are several planets in the night sky this time of year, it is not clear which planet…

I believe what you were seeing is chromatic aberration from your binocular’s optics, which causes different wavelengths of light…

There are many atmospheric phenomena that produce “twinkling” behaviour in astronomical and human-made objects. From Austin Texas this time…

Very likely what you are seeing is the Earth’s atmosphere along the path from you to the star moving…

I believe that what you are seeing in your images of Venus are internal reflections of scattered light in…

It is very likely that what you were seeing was a patch of the Earth’s atmosphere with an elevated…

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