Anyone any idea what this was over Wicklow Skies?

shinny

My brother in law posted a video on Facebook with some strange lights in the sky. He described it as having the same colours as a the multicoloured fairy lights. I can't post his video, but it's exactly like this one posted by someone else on youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mu3bapWSxHw

He said it was much brighter than came out on the video, same as this other person. Any ideas?

ThatDrGuy

Video too blurry to tell. But in short - lights. Either from a plane (wings) or helicopter (skids)

shinny

It was too big/bright to be that, plus there was no sound. After doing some youtube searches, seems like this has happened in a few other places but nobody seems to be able to explain it.

Captain Chaos

The quality is cack in fairness. \just look at the single light in the sky and compare it to ones in the distance on the ground, they are all the same colour, changing from blue green and red. Just a very poor and way out of focus camera. Nothing strange to see here and the East coast is always busy with aircraft lining up for position with approach to Dublin airport.

Cú Giobach

shinny wrote: »

My brother in law posted a video on Facebook with some strange lights in the sky. He described it as having the same colours as a the multicoloured fairy lights. I can't post his video, but it's exactly like this one posted by someone else on youtube:

He said it was much brighter than came out on the video, same as this other person. Any ideas?

In fairness this is an astronomy forum, if someone wants to know what something is a little bit of detail is helpful, for example.....What direction was the "light"? How high up was it? Did it move? And If it moved, how fast was it? Was it clear or partially cloudy? What time was it observed? How long was it there? Where was it observed from?

Basically, almost anything other than just "what was a point of light I saw in the sky?" the answer to that question is "It could have been anything whatsoever that appears as a point of light in the sky".

If it was shining multicoloured it could have been Sirius. The only things that twinkle multicoloured are stars.
Lots of people at the moment are getting quite excited about seeing Venus it's so bright, but it is a very steady bright white.

shinny

Cú Giobach wrote: »

In fairness this is an astronomy forum, if someone wants to know what something is a little bit of detail is helpful, for example.....What direction was the "light"? How high up was it? Did it move? And If it moved, how fast was it? Was it clear or partially cloudy? What time was it observed? How long was it there? Where was it observed from?

Basically, almost anything other than just "what was a point of light I saw in the sky?" the answer to that question is "It could have been anything whatsoever that appears as a point of light in the sky".

If it was shining multicoloured it could have been Sirius. The only things that twinkle multicoloured are stars.
Lots of people at the moment are getting quite excited about seeing Venus it's so bright, but it is a very steady bright white.

It was about 8.30pm last night. I didn't see it, so I'm trying to guess the position from where I know the video was taken. I'm thinking it's NE. It was very bright and flashed different colours, didn't move and all for about 15 minutes.

Edit: After looking at some videos of Sirius, I think that's what it was. Raging I never saw it myself.

Cú Giobach

shinny wrote: »

It was about 8.30pm last night. I didn't see it, so I'm trying to guess the position from where I know the video was taken. I'm thinking it's NE. It was very bright and flashed different colours, didn't move and all for about 15 minutes.

Edit: After looking at some videos of Sirius, I think that's what it was. Raging I never saw it myself.

Well in the NE around that time you have Arcturus a bright reddish star and more northerly and rising a bit later Vega, a very bright white one, both will show twinkling colours when low in the sky though.

Sirius would be first visible in the South at sunset, moving westwards during the evening.

busymammy

shinny wrote: »

My brother in law posted a video on Facebook with some strange lights in the sky. He described it as having the same colours as a the multicoloured fairy lights. I can't post his video, but it's exactly like this one posted by someone else on youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mu3bapWSxHw

He said it was much brighter than came out on the video, same as this other person. Any ideas?

I saw them, There were 4 lights in straight horizontal line over the Rathnew. And after about 20 min they vent away increasing distance between them

dawson

I aswell saw these lights in wicklow, the same night.. a rewind of mine rang me to look out in the back garden up in the sky, I thought he was pulling a fast one, and sure enough 4 flashing lights, with equally the same distance apart. These were static not moving at all just flashing, this lasted for about 15 minutes before moving away in the same formation into the distance..
It was brilliant to look at, very freaky.. they were there for that long I had enough time to ring a few people to check it out themselves, and they seen the exact same thing...