Quick! Look at the moon!

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Thank-you for the video, TheMachine1. It's going to take several days of therapy to get that one out of my mind.

Roxas_XIII raises a serious issue. We need to track Near-Earth Asteroids and prepare contingency plans in case one gets too close. All the asteroid-tracking facilities need to feed their information into a central office, which we will call Near Earth Asteroid Tracking Operations.

Someone in the UK check!

As my thing says, I'm in Central IL, and it sounds like the whole east coast through to the midwest at least can see it.

It's kind of boring if it's just Venus, and not a REALLY SLOW alien invasion

I tried to take a picture, but it doesn't look like much. It looks a lot bigger and brighter and weirder in real life. My camera just makes it look like a white spot.



That's resized down to 800x600, but even at 3.2 Megapixels it didn't come out.

Taken from my bedroom window (which unfortunately has a screen), several minutes ago. I went onto the balcony to try to take it, but the tree was in the way...

Yeah, it looks lower like that for me now too. My picture I took about an hour ago.

*****************Scratch that...I just got back indoors, and the moon is gone. It's...not there. Where did it go? It and that light were there 10 minutes ago. I've been walking around to make sure it's not behind a tree or something, but the moon is gone.

There's probably a perfectly logical explanation for that, but still, this is exciting!

oh...it was just venus. guess I can stand down from defcon 4. it seemed so much weirder than just venus.

BTW, the reason the sky looks so light in my picture is that it was taken just before 10:00 pm local time, and sunset was just after 9:30, so the sky was still in twilight to the west.

No no no! It's not Venus, the MOON DISAPPEARED! I'm serious. It's just gone here. Can anyone else still see it?

(I'm sure this is all perfectly rational, but I have actually seen craft in the sky for hours-they were very obviously craft, had lights, hung there for hours, etc.)

The moon is gone here too but I think maybe it just went behind some clouds, or it went down for the night. I don't think it's missing or anything.

It's not behind clouds here, because I can still see stars where it was. Shouldn't the moon go UP when it gets later?

I just want to make this exciting

Weird, I was wondering what that was last night but got distracted! Wish I knew more about astronomy I can only point to 3 things in the night sky and know what they are ... and one is the moon!

I live in central il too. i missed it all ! !!
I just looked up phenomena like this, it says we're dealing with either a grotesk earthshine (normally sunlight would reflect off of our clouds and bassically show the moon in HD, but the moon is dodging it and we're hitting venus) or something else called "old and new moon's arms" Im looking that up right now
GEEZE IM SHAKyyyy!!

Now that it's daylight again... can any one tell me how I can get that #@%&$! Banananarama song out of my head???

I live in Illinois and missed it. Bummer. How often does this happen?