Big Light In Sky Last Night

Beta the interactive night sky map simulates the sky above new york on a date of your choice.

Big light in sky last night.

Last night a mysterious light lit up the skies over california leaving people as far east as louisiana perplexed. If you ve looked up at the night sky recently you might have been surprised to see a train of bright lights moving. Sa and wa residents reported seeing bright objects in a line in the sky last night. What was that weird blue glow in the sky.

The map also shows the phases of the moon and all solar and lunar eclipses. And that s what was happening friday night as numerous twitter posts surfaced from people who said they saw a bright light streak across the nighttime sky over phoenix sometime around 9 30 p m. But september 2020 presents a fine time to start watching these worlds. The moon won t be hanging around every night but you ve got a few nights around this conjunction where mercury will be sitting as high in the evening sky as you re going to see.

Unlike stars they generally don t twinkle as they have an apparent diameter large enough that the effect of turbulence in the earth s atmosphere averages out. Starlink satellites seen after the first launch in may 2019. The next one will be december 21 2020. The last great jupiter saturn conjunction was may 28 2000.

At that time the blue tinted planet will be 4 light hours or 28 9 astronomical units from earth it will shine at a slightly brighter magnitude 7 8 and will be visible all night long in good.