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Strange light this morning over Dublin
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18-06-2012 7:46pm#1
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Hello,
I saw an object in the sky early this morning in between ~3 to 4am. I'm in Dublin South West and it was in the eastern sky, moving slowly in a northerly direction. It was a bright white light (perhaps like Venus) , pulsating several times per second, with red and green hues. It moved irregularly, sometimes ascending and then descending again. Eventually it stopped moving north and instead seemed to move along an elliptical path. Then it's luminosity diminished greatly (like a faint star) and it began to move in all directions in very jerky movements. It also seemed to emit long green beams of light. Then it ascended through a layer of cirrus clouds and disappeared.
Any ideas? Did anyone else see this?
Ignore the other two messers(not regular posters)
:rolleyes:
I'm usually the first to bring out the Chinese Lantern explanation but those involve orange/red lights in the sky.
Where you looking at it through Binoculars??
The time, direction and colours of object screams Capella to me. My guess is you were looking at Capella which is a bright star in the ENE at that time. It twinkles red and green at this time of year as its much closer to the horizon at this hour and time of year. The movement and dimming I would put down to perspective etc as clouds on the horizon out over the irish sea intermittantly move in front of it and also give the illusion that the object is moving when in fact its a cloud in front moving around/across it from your perspective etc.0 -
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Where you looking at it through Binoculars??
Unfortunately I didn't even have any binoculars with me
The time, direction and colours of object screams Capella to me. My guess is you were looking at Capella which is a bright star in the ENE at that time. It twinkles red and green at this time of year as its much closer to the horizon at this hour and time of year. The movement and dimming I would put down to perspective etc as clouds on the horizon out over the irish sea intermittantly move in front of it and also give the illusion that the object is moving when in fact its a cloud in front moving around/across it from your perspective etc.
I don't think it was a star because the sky was cloudless except for a few cirrus which were much higher obviously. I didn't see any stars in the sky at the time. The light was much lower on the horizon initially, and I never lost visual contact with it until a while after it went above the cirrus layer.
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Op what you saw was the rescue helicopter
AH YES! This could be it all right. I remember a few years ago looking north at Dublin from a house on brayhead and a red and green light flew over. I knew it was some kind of aircraft but the lights where flipping end over end. I figured it was one of the air corp single seat trainers doing barrel rolls which I thought ridiculous at that time of night. Of course I was visualising the lights on the wing tips. Checked with the lads on the aircraft forums and someone checked the ATC recordings for that night and it turned out that a Garda Helicopter corresponded with the flightpath and time. The lights on that are front and back rather than wingtips of a plane which gave the illusion of barrel rolls had it been a plane.
Just reading about a boat that was stolen (subsequently found on arklow beach with the keys in the ignition) Could have been the garda helicopter with its searchlight over dublin bay looking for it.
Given the time and the direction I was sure the OP was miss identifying Capella. It seemed like too much of a coincidence and an example of walk like a duck talk like a duck.
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