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Originally Posted by chasinthesun
Ok ,its now visable in the eastern sky and if Im viewing this right ,what the heck am I viewing?I took a long look at the object and it sure looks like an asteriod ,a big one.Most visable object in the sky and starts rising out of the eastern sky around 8 pm here in Houston.It took me a while to figure out how to get the object in to view ,I had to move the scope slightly by hand as it was in close range then keep it their when viewing .If Anyones out tonight play devils advocate and tell me Im wrong.
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I believe you are looking at Jupiter. Elenin itself is aparently below 9th magnitude and unless you are seeing a faint fuzzy looking diffuse greenish white patch in your scope that's not it.
- Peter.
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