posted December 11, 2005 10:18 PM              

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What is that star anyway? Doesn't make sense to me really. Tonight I've been watching the moon a lot and when I first went out I noticed a star right next to it and I thought "hmmm don't remember seeing that before".

Came out again and moon was higher and there was the little star too!

Went out again and the same story.

SO for all you experts - what is this little star that follows the moon around that I've never noticed before? Or is it some new man-made satellite following the moon around.

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posted December 11, 2005 11:41 PM              

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tonight it's the satelite'
red white nd blue

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posted December 11, 2005 11:08 PM              

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Is it really? I hoped I wasn't crazy!! I didn't even know we had satelites following the moon around.

I wish I had a telescope for the rare nights like to night when there's no smog.

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posted December 11, 2005 11:41 PM              

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I've been noticing this little sky dance for years. I've even nicknamed it "Venus in love with the moon."

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posted December 12, 2005 09:06 AM              

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Yeah...I used a 625 mag telescope on it. Red/white/blue/yellow/green.....looks like a satelite.
Saw one like it in 1992 in the Northeast above the horizon for months.

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posted December 12, 2005 09:21 PM              

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I don't see it there tonight! Although there's something that looks similar quite a far way off from the moon but I don't know if it's the same thing.

Very strange to think about how we can put things into space that we can see from all the way down here.

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posted December 12, 2005 10:04 PM              

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It's Venus, the morning/evening star. You can tell easily because it will be the only star out. If you ever see the moon, and then only one star, it's venus.

Venus is the "first star" of the evening mentioned in the rhyme.

"Star light star bright first star I see tonight, I wish I may I wish I might to have the wish I wish tonight."

It does this little dance where it gets really close, then moves away, then repeats, as it makes a pentagram across the sky.

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posted December 13, 2005 08:20 AM            

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That's freakin' awesome! I've seen Venus by the moon at night (it's beautiful... especially when it isn't quite dark yet.) But I've never noticed the "dance."

I'll be watching!

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posted December 13, 2005 08:48 AM              

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I don't really think it was a star, though - I don't remember ever seeing a star that close to the moon.

It was close enough so that it was still in the moon's 'glow' and then as the moon went across the sky it stayed right there in exactly the same spot by the moon. Stars move in a totally different pattern than the moon, don't they?

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posted December 14, 2005 08:54 AM              

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Venus dancing with the Moon back in the day when I was only into astronomy…and hadn’t really studied astrology - I would have thought “weird” but now it seems so sweet.

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posted December 14, 2005 09:03 PM              

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I found these two links on the topic.
http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/anti-masonry/pentagram/pop/krazy_kat_venus.html
http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/anti-masonry/venus.html

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