(from N. CA) What is the large, bright celestial body prominently visible in the Eastern sky at 0600?
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Venus (called the Morning Star as it is visible in twilight) should be pretty bright in the eastern sky. \n\nI'm ignoring the moon or sun as you will immediately recognise them (hopefully). the moon appears at different positions at different times of the month.
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the big dipper is always pretty much in the north, but ir revolves around the north star as the year progresses, and as each night progresses. About now, if you looked north at about 10 PM, it is a bit east of the north star
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sounds like it could have been sirius, in the constellation canis major. this is the brightest star in the northern hemisphere.
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It really depends on where you are.  For northernly latitudes, Ursa Major (big dipper), Ursa Minor (little dipper), and Cassiopeia are generally visible on any night of the year.
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All of the constellations north of the celestial equator can be seen at sometime during the year.  Right nowthe summer triangle dominates the sky, with milky way, northern cross and Lyre with the blue star Vega. Google local sky and you will get the address of a sky chart
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South west sky.\n\nJust set the time and date in the map link below.\n\nJupiter looks like a curvy numeral 4 on an olive circle on this sky map!
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Right now it's Venus. Try skyandtelescope.com for questions like that.
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It might be Seti@Home...\nIt's to look for extra terrestrials...\nhttp://setiathome.berkeley.edu/
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The Planets Venus and Jupiter. Especially Venus as you will always find it close to the horizon in either the evening or morning. They are so bright that they seem to move with you like the illusion of the Moon following you, especially if you're driving. Also bright stars twinkle when they are low to the horizon due to atmospheric disturbances. \nOtherwise people might see airplanes, helicopters, weather balloons, satellites, or meteors.
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There are several things. Right now comet Pojmanski is visible in the morning sky. Also Mercury is visble. In a month the Lyrid metershower will peak. Events like these are constantly posted on www.spaceweather.com
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Bigger that what? \n\nRemember, these planets are still a long ways away. \n\nAnd the morning star/evening star, which is Venus, sometimes called Lucifer or Hesperides or Phosphorus or Hesperus (The identification of morning star with evening star, or Phosphorus=Hesperus was famously realized by Pythagoras) is very large and bright in the sky sometimes. \n\nMercury is a bit harder to see because it is so small, and so close to the sun.
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kinda, but it isn't a star. it's fragments of space debris, meteors etc, burning up whilst passing thru the earth's atmosphere. From the ground it appears like a star shooting across the sky, hence it's name.
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Its actually not a star at all. Its the 2nd planet from our sun, Venus.\n\nYou can see it in the early morning as well.
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If you want to know the names of celestial objects, you need to be familiar with landmarks in the celestial sphere, such as Polaris, the Big Dipper, Orion, etc. These are easy to find constellations and stars that provide guides to harder to find objects. Get a star gazing guide, or the excellent Starry Night Pro software: http://www.starrynight.com/ .\nIf you mean how to tell satellites from planets and stars, note that objects near Earth do not scintillate (twinkle) like stars. Most satellites move very fast, and are obviously moving too fast for the Earth's rotation to be the only cause. Planets are extremely bright compared to stars and do not scintillate.\nDon't expect to see nebulas and other faraway objects without a (good, not department store style) telescope or a strong pair of binoculars. The only galaxy you can see with the naked eye is our own, the Milky Way, and at that only in non-light polluted areas. I have never seen the Milky Way from NYC, but from the equator, it's a beautiful sight (it's a milky white band across the sky).
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The US Naval Observatory has this information. Each eclipse in the table has a map you can click on to see where on Earth it could be seen.
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Venus--also known as the Morning Star
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It could have been a variable star or you saw a nova. check the NASA site to see if they have any news about this. I didn't see anything there but in future here is the web page for NASA\nhttp://www.nasa.gov/news/highlights/index.html\nAlso could been the space station or a satellite