Anyone else see this in the sky last night

WBrazel

Anyone else see something strange in the sky over Dublin last night. These taken from north dublin. The white line on the left of the image is the spire, the red blob in the shape of Darth Vadar's mask, well that's anyone's guess.

I'd imagine its the moon, the angle I think is about right for it, but I have to admit I've never seen it like that before. Anyone able to explain??

Podman

Moon is my guess.. It can often look large and red seen just over the horizon, like a harvest moon.

Did you stick around to see if it was?

blacksmith105

Ahh its called the moon ... its basically been there for hundreds of millions of years . The Yellow glow is the suns reflection and is common during late July early August

stovelid

blacksmith105 wrote: »

its basically been there for hundreds of millions of years .

No way?

WBrazel

Of course its the moon. As I said the angle of the moon setting last night was about 230degrees southwest, which is exactly the angle between the camera and the blob of moon. The angle of the moon relative to the earth when setting would cause an atmospheric effect that would cause the moon to be red. All blue light is scattered downwards on entering the atmosphere so at a long angle the only light getting to you would be red.

I've actually never seen a moon like that, being from the inner city I would not have got to see the moon at such a low angle in Dublin though I have seen it elsewhere. Big tall buildings in the big smoke Blacksmith, bright lights, quite different to the boglands.

Just thought it was interesting the way the trees on the mountain and the clouds made a kind of darth vadar shape onto the moon.

Degsy

WBrazel wrote: »

Just thought it was interesting the way the trees on the mountain and the clouds made a kind of darth vadar shape onto the moon.

More like a cylon i thought

sandra252

WBrazel wrote: »

Anyone else see something strange in the sky over Dublin last night. These taken from north dublin. The white line on the left of the image is the spire, the red blob in the shape of Darth Vadar's mask, well that's anyone's guess.

I'd imagine its the moon, the angle I think is about right for it, but I have to admit I've never seen it like that before. Anyone able to explain??

heya i seen this myself last nite after 9o'clock i cot 2 pics of it but it was like a comet wen i seen it had a long tail and was like a redy/orange fire ball.goin at a very slow pace i watched it for about 20mins,and it wasnt the moon by the way.i'l get the pic's up.go onto astronomy ireland u can post ur pic's up there i sent them my ones last nite.has me puzzled to wot it was.:rolleyes:

sandra252

:cool: zoom in on this does anyone now wat this was wed 28th of july in dublin

The Hill Billy

Possibly an aircraft contrail.

jkiss

sandra252 wrote: »

:cool: zoom in on this does anyone now wat this was wed 28th of july in dublin

Chinese lantern.

ian_m

Nice pic regardless.

Nolanger

They'll land in some field and a cow/horse will eat it and choke on the wire :mad: