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Conrad Fink

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Hey there guys and gals of this here shared rock of ours :)

I R completely new to being curious about whats going on outside Earth's atmosphere.  There's enough terrestrial goings on that I've just never spent more than an odd night out, away from a city to gaze in wonder at all the lights in the night sky.

On Sunday night, November 8th, 2015, I was starring out at the sky and was enthralled by a lone illumination, low on the horizon.  It was more alive, twinkling, bright, than any other illumination.  I was outside having a sort of 'spiritual' moment.  Enjoying the feeling of love and marveling at life, balance...  I wondered "What if all the stars in the sky shone as brilliantly as that one solitary illumination?"

That turns into a long story.  Maybe another time I'll continue it.  That night sparked my curiousity about the powers beyond my terrestrial home.

Over the next couple weeks I would occasionally look for and find this ilumination, right where I saw it before.  Then on Sunday morning, November 22nd, I checked for my illumination at 1:30-2am and didn't find it.  I noticed another spot, about 90 degrees clockwise and 20 or so higher (sorry didn't know anything about coordinates then), that exhibited same properties; very bright, twinkling, no stars anywhere near...  I curious.

I went back outside at 2:50am to find that the illumination I'd originally been looking for was there, not as bright as I was used to seeing, but that changed as time passed.  I took pictures, on my cell phone.  It looked, when I zoomed in, like it was only there on one side.

When I checked again at 4:41am my illumination was still there in same spot, as bright as I'd come to expect.  Another picture.  Completely full, radiant.

I'm never up at dawn, but that night I stayed up.  At 6:14am light was still there, it had just risen (refraction from the sunlight, yes?), another picture.  Still full.

At 6:30am I took one last photo and I'll be damned if, when I zoomed in as far as phone would go, my illumination was just a ring, with no light in the center of it...

I'm still baffled.  I have never heard of an illumination not moving over the course of a night.  Sadly where I live, in Denver, clouds rolled in on Thanksgiving day and continue to cover the sky. I did snap more pictures on Tuesday night from a mile north but didn't stay awake to document it staying put all night.

Friday night I bought Sky Safari Pro for my ipad/phone, found atlas, learned enough about coordinates to stumble about...  When I used SSP to get coordinates 12:16am Regulus lined up with where my illumination would be, or very close.

When I loaded my coordinates into Aladin v8.0 I was wowed.  And I have no idea if what I'm looking at on Aladin is at all what I took pictures of, which leads me to 2 discussion points.

First, what the heck is that at 10:08:22.39 +11:57:51.8 using SDSS9?  I haven't found any other shapes that look like that...

Here's a link to it on SKY-MAP.

http://my.sky-map.org/?ra=10.141448738430173&de=11.921594675656515&zoom=10&show_grid=1&show_constellation_lines=1&show_constellation_boundaries=1&show_const_names=0&show_galaxies=1&show_box=1&box_ra=10.153639&box_de=11.88775&box_width=50&box_height=50&img_source=SDSS

Second, any of you Earthlings interested in this stolid illumination I keep seeing and care to discuss, perhaps investigate from your cloudless location, here is the info I have on where I'm viewing and from...

Illumination would be visible looking;

RA

07:44:32.37

Dec

+15:27:59.0

looking from;

Denver

Latitude

39:40:08.07

Longitude

104:57:31.3

Elevation

1627 meters

Standard Time Zone

-7.0 hours from GMT

Local Time

9:50pm, November 29, 2015

And here is a link to a website that I threw the time indexed photos, along with close ups for each;

https://conradfink.wordpress.com/illuminations/

I look forward to however any may be able to illuminate my ignoranceieses!

Earthling

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Hi welcome to SGL and to Astronomy.... Denver is beautiful... I have family and visit often. It gets cold but you get a lot of clear nights with nice dry air at 5000ft. Excellent for stargazing... Btw Broncos did well...  :smiley: 

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