Help identifying star in sky in Ireland

50 comments

1. What direction are you looking at?

2. The sun.

3. Download an app from playstore?

4. Download Google Sky Map, point your phone at what you want identified, have fun.

5. Aliens

6. Dude, that’s the fucking earth. Taxi driver must be taking you for a ride

7. This is the most unhelpful image I think I’ve seen in ages. Go download a star finder app, I’d say.

8. Most likely Jupiter

9. Jupiter is fierce bright currently, might be early for it though

10. it’s jupiter

11. That ain’t a star

12. That’s probably your street light 😅 no reference from other stars, no direction, this photo is as useful as a cock flavoured lollypop

13. Most likely Jupiter.

    If it’s the most prominent and shiniest star in the sky at the moment in the south east, it’s most definitely the gas giant himself.

14. Jupiter….. mars is also easily visible tonight and the space station could be easily seen too. Surprised how fast it moved.

    SkyView is a superb app for checking them

15. the space station.

16. Looks like M87

17. Why thats the unmistakable tail end of a scrotes elf bar

18. It’s a drone delivering an overpriced coffee.

19. Tatooine

20. Jupiter. Biggest planet in the solar system. If you go look towards the right, you will see a dimmer light. That light is Saturn ( the one with the big rings )

21. That’s the spire mate

22. 30 comments and not a single uranus joke, hang your heads

23. is it just in the irish part of the sky?

24. Have access to binoculars OP? if you can resolve (focus the image into a single point of solid light) I’ll check myself now I’ve a balcony and can give the basics for OP.

    BRB

    Back: south east moving to the south brighter than anything else in the same spot it’s Jupiter.

25. That’s Laraby. He waved at us 2 nights ago. Still waiting for us to wave back.

26. download stellarium app in your phone, you can identify it by yourself

27. Download planet finder app and it will show you, I’d say it’s Jupiter though it’s been very visible lately

28. It’s Jupiter.

    [This app](https://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/night/) might help you. You can rewind or fast forward in time to see where the stars and planets were/will be.

29. It’s the feckin moon, you’re just zoomed out.

30. El blue dotto

31. It’s you, you’re the star!

32. It’s Uranus. Take the phone out of your hole 🤭

33. Download skymap and point out towards it

34. Generally If it twinkles it’s a star, steady spot a planet , flashing a plane

35. Definitely Ur anus

36. Your windscreen is chipped!

37. Is it Joe Dylan

38. Aer Lingus ..?

39. Computer, enhance!

40. Jupiter, also you can see Mars these nights

41. It’s Jupiter, load up your sky map.

42. You serious? 😂😂

43. Skyportal app is good too.

44. It’s Jupiter (always is)

45. Is it Uranus 🤔

46. This photo in itself isn’t a lot of help. There’s no context of any other nearby stars, and we don’t even know which direction we’re looking at.

47. Tis Jupiter themself

48. Download Stellarium, brilliant app just point the phone to the sky and it tells you what you’re looking at.

49. Ha, as odd as this post is, I noticed a star right in the direction you speak, and thought the exact same thing. Really clear night all around to be fair. Edith: this will sort ye, tell me what you got.

    https://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/night/ireland/dundalk

50. Probably a planet. I started using an app called Sky Map recently cus I was curious about really bright stars.

    Turns out its usually Mars or Jupiter. If you were looking in a West South West direction then it was Jupiter. If East, then it was Mars.

    I don’t know if Mercury or Venus have ever been visible since I started using it ( think theyre on the other side of the Sun rn) and I don’t know if Saturn is too far or not to ever be visible.

    If anybody knows the answers to the last part please let me know!