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Posted: 6/1/2013 9:22:25 PM EDT
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I'm not saying its aliens, but
IT'S ALIENS! |
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Posted: 6/1/2013 9:23:13 PM EDT
[#2]
you are probably having a stroke.
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Posted: 6/1/2013 9:23:40 PM EDT
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Supernovae last for years. They don't just blink out in an instant.
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Posted: 6/1/2013 9:23:52 PM EDT
[#4]
You may want to retake astronomy 101.
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Posted: 6/1/2013 9:24:18 PM EDT
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Went out to close the garage and just happened to glance up at the sky. Was looking towards Vega and one of the stars got really big and bright for just a moment then vanished. CSB I would recommend a pregnancy test.... |
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Posted: 6/1/2013 9:26:25 PM EDT
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Supernovae last for years. They don't just blink out in an instant. It was an alien battlecruiser dropping out of hyperspace! Prepare Uranus for invasion. |
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Posted: 6/1/2013 9:26:54 PM EDT
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Went out to close the garage and just happened to glance up at the sky. Was looking towards Vega and one of the stars got really big and bright for just a moment then vanished. CSB Iridium flare. Look it up. |
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Posted: 6/1/2013 9:27:23 PM EDT
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Posted: 6/1/2013 9:27:31 PM EDT
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Break out the Champagne.
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Posted: 6/1/2013 9:27:55 PM EDT
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Iridium flare.
Google it. You can get an app for your smartphone that will tell you when and where you'll see them based on your GPS location. TL/DR version. Sunlight reflecting off a phone satellite's body or solar panel etc. |
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Posted: 6/1/2013 9:28:02 PM EDT
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Quoted: Quoted: Went out to close the garage and just happened to glance up at the sky. Was looking towards Vega and one of the stars got really big and bright for just a moment then vanished. CSB Iridium flare. Look it up. This. |
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Posted: 6/1/2013 9:28:25 PM EDT
[#12]
you have an inoperative brain tumor
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Posted: 6/1/2013 9:29:56 PM EDT
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Cool.. |
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Posted: 6/1/2013 9:30:02 PM EDT
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You may want to retake astronomy 101. I'm a taurus. What are you? 
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Posted: 6/1/2013 9:31:26 PM EDT
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Supernovae last for years. They don't just blink out in an instant. Peak luminosity falls off sharply at around 20-30 days. Much longer than a few seconds anyway. 
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Posted: 6/1/2013 9:33:32 PM EDT
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This is the kind of shit that starts religions.
 
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Posted: 6/1/2013 9:34:44 PM EDT
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Went out to close the garage and just happened to glance up at the sky. Was looking towards Vega and one of the stars got really big and bright for just a moment then vanished. CSB Iridium flare. Look it up. I looked it up. That is not what I saw. |
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Posted: 6/1/2013 9:35:09 PM EDT
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Oh, and I can say categorically that the WORST time to see an Iridium Flare is over your wife's shoulder when you're out in the parking lot somewhere bickering.
ADD kicks in... you look away, "Oh look, an Iridium Flare!"
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Posted: 6/1/2013 9:36:05 PM EDT
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Supernovae last for years. They don't just blink out in an instant. This. The scale of a supernova is crazy. |
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Posted: 6/1/2013 9:36:57 PM EDT
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Horvath battle cruiser dropping out of warp .
HIDE YOUR SYRUP !!! |
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Posted: 6/1/2013 9:38:02 PM EDT
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Oh, and I can say categorically that the WORST time to see an Iridium Flare is over your wife's shoulder when you're out in the parking lot somewhere bickering. ADD kicks in... you look away, "Oh look, an Iridium Flare!" <snort> |
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Posted: 6/1/2013 9:39:52 PM EDT
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Quoted: Quoted: Went out to close the garage and just happened to glance up at the sky. Was looking towards Vega and one of the stars got really big and bright for just a moment then vanished. CSB Iridium flare. Look it up. Heavens above forecasts them and tells you where to look to see them. They're pretty freaky if you don't know what you just saw.  http://www.heavens-above.com/ |
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Posted: 6/1/2013 9:51:36 PM EDT
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There are several videos of iridium flares on youtube. Check them out and see if they look familiar.
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Posted: 6/1/2013 9:53:16 PM EDT
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Posted: 6/1/2013 9:55:07 PM EDT
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There are several videos of iridium flares on youtube. Check them out and see if they look familiar. That's what I did. In those videos they moved across the sky, this did not move. It was there, it goy really big and bright and then it was gone. No moving across the sky like what's shown in the videos. |
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Posted: 6/1/2013 9:55:37 PM EDT
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An upside down, taxidermy deer butt. |
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Posted: 6/1/2013 9:56:25 PM EDT
[#27]
twinkle twinkle little supernova
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Posted: 6/1/2013 9:56:26 PM EDT
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Gamma ray burst?? The end is near!
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Posted: 6/1/2013 9:57:11 PM EDT
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I saw something that fits this description down in FL back in 97. Thing is there were multiple flares and they were in a line and moving in the same direction!
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Posted: 6/1/2013 10:01:39 PM EDT
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I saw something that fits this description down in FL back in 97. Thing is there were multiple flares and they were in a line and moving in the same direction! This was singular. Just one very large and very bright flash. I looked at the star just a second before it happened. |
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Posted: 6/1/2013 10:02:07 PM EDT
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This thread seems............. "Familiar!"
- Clint |
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Posted: 6/1/2013 10:03:51 PM EDT
[#32]
Let me do some research, because I remember reading an article about a week or two ago about a sudden surge in some kind of radiation (gamma?) from an area of space which, is theorized by astronomers, to preceed supernovae.
_MaH Edit: Hmmm... Supernova Alert |
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Posted: 6/1/2013 10:07:09 PM EDT
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Supernovae last for years. They don't just blink out in an instant. Maybe it has been gone, but the end of its light just reached us, at the moment he was looking. |
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Posted: 6/1/2013 10:09:09 PM EDT
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The atmosphere distorts the light from stars.
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Posted: 6/1/2013 10:09:56 PM EDT
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The atmosphere distorts the light from stars. Let's keep in mind that this is very true. _MaH |
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Posted: 6/1/2013 10:13:53 PM EDT
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The light would be reaching us for years too.
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Supernovae last for years. They don't just blink out in an instant. Maybe it has been gone, but the end of its light just reached us, at the moment he was looking. OP I think you saw Uranus winking at you. |
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Posted: 6/1/2013 10:15:11 PM EDT
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Here. Something to read up on.
History of Supernova Observation I don't know what you saw, but it did just cross my mind that - in the human history of observed supernovae - when one occurs the light doesn't just "go out". Actually, something much more significant happens, and it attracts a lot of attention to the sky (perhaps, though, mostly by astronomers, and such a thing could likely go unnoticed by the unaided eye given today's prevalence of light pollution). _MaH |
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Posted: 6/1/2013 10:26:45 PM EDT
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Let me do some research, because I remember reading an article about a week or two ago about a sudden surge in some kind of radiation (gamma?) from an area of space which, is theorized by astronomers, to preceed supernovae. _MaH Edit: Hmmm... Supernova Alert We just got hit with some unknown interplanetary pulse that had the aurora acting up. We're fucked 
Check spaceweather.com |
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Posted: 6/1/2013 10:27:00 PM EDT
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Quoted: Supernovae last for weeks years. They don't just blink out in an instant. |
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Posted: 6/1/2013 10:28:06 PM EDT
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Quoted: See if you can roll a pencil across a table with your mind.Quoted: Quoted: Went out to close the garage and just happened to glance up at the sky. Was looking towards Vega and one of the stars got really big and bright for just a moment then vanished. CSB Iridium flare. Look it up. I looked it up. That is not what I saw. |
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Posted: 6/1/2013 10:32:06 PM EDT
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Let me do some research, because I remember reading an article about a week or two ago about a sudden surge in some kind of radiation (gamma?) from an area of space which, is theorized by astronomers, to preceed supernovae. _MaH Edit: Hmmm... Supernova Alert We just got hit with some unknown interplanetary pulse that had the aurora acting up. We're fucked
Check spaceweather.com "Last night, Northern Lights spilled across the Canadian border into more than a dozen US states, turning the sky purple and green as far south as Colorado and Nebraska." Sonuvabitch I missed it! 
Okie-dokie, between this website and Heavens Above, I've got enough resources on hand to keep me plenty occupied watching the sky on my overnight camp-outs in the mountains this summer! 
_MaH |
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Posted: 6/1/2013 10:33:55 PM EDT
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What you saw was probably a star that appeared brighter in your averted vision, but dimmed when you looked right at it. And if your eyes aren't well adjusted to the dark, they do that a lot. It takes about an hour in a dark sky location (outside of a town) for your eyes to adjust enough to see most of the naked-eye visible stars.
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Posted: 6/1/2013 11:07:37 PM EDT
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What you saw was probably a star that appeared brighter in your averted vision, but dimmed when you looked right at it. And if your eyes aren't well adjusted to the dark, they do that a lot. It takes about an hour in a dark sky location (outside of a town) for your eyes to adjust enough to see most of the naked-eye visible stars. I was looking right at it as it went from normal star, to big blue flash, then nothing. I'm positive it was not an optical trick played by night blindness or peripheral vision. |
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Posted: 6/1/2013 11:11:10 PM EDT
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Posted: 6/1/2013 11:16:21 PM EDT
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shooting star coming straight in.. and you were in the perfect spot?
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Posted: 6/1/2013 11:18:49 PM EDT
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You were watching a c-beam glittering in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate.
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Posted: 6/1/2013 11:19:49 PM EDT
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shooting star coming straight in.. and you were in the perfect spot? Might have been a toilet seat, then... 
_MaH |
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Posted: 6/1/2013 11:23:32 PM EDT
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It was an inverse tachyon beam
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Posted: 6/1/2013 11:36:36 PM EDT
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Went out to close the garage and just happened to glance up at the sky. Was looking towards Vega and one of the stars got really big and bright for just a moment then vanished. CSB I would recommend a pregnancy test.... Ha. All arfcom advice ends with teh OP being diagnosed as pregnant or having aids. |
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Posted: 6/2/2013 12:42:57 AM EDT
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Quoted: It might have been a thin layer of clouds moving through that gave way to a hole, then a thicker layer covered the star. You can see quite a few stars through even thick clouds. Or it could have been a nova. But naked-eye supernovae are rare, there's usually one per 500 years, and they're very bright. Bright enough to see in the daylight kind of bright. And they stay that way for weeks.Quoted: What you saw was probably a star that appeared brighter in your averted vision, but dimmed when you looked right at it. And if your eyes aren't well adjusted to the dark, they do that a lot. It takes about an hour in a dark sky location (outside of a town) for your eyes to adjust enough to see most of the naked-eye visible stars. I was looking right at it as it went from normal star, to big blue flash, then nothing. I'm positive it was not an optical trick played by night blindness or peripheral vision. |
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