Blinking star Houston Texas

I see this star following the night sky southwest from Houston. I finally got a shot of it with a tripod. You will see that the first 30 seconds is optical zoom, 30-1:12 is digital zoom, and the last of it is magnified and enhanced. There are a few stars/planets that blink like this every night, but this one is the brightest. Not sure what causes such light displays. When the object moves from the lower of the screen to the top, it is me changing the focus of the frame.

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Science & Technology

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• blinking
• star
• satellite
• light
• red
• blue
• orange
• ufo

[maaraa01]

they say it is sirius star!

[wr777]

@maaraa01 Who are they?

[ElyVonDoom]

the link i wanted to post explains this but it wont let me post, so here's the copy explination from curious about astronomy.

This is because of scintillation ("Twinkling") as the light passes through the atmosphere of the Earth. As the air moves in and out, the starlight is refracted, often different colors in different directions. Because of this "chromatic abberation," stars can appear to change colors when they are twinkling strongly.

[wr777]

@ElyVonDoom You're saying this star twinkling while stars next to it do not throughout the entire evening is because the atmosphere has a tiny moving spot of special gases that follows this star across the sky while remaining clear for stars only a fraction of a degree away from it? Or are you saying that this star is emitting special light that reacts differently with our atmosphere than any other star around it? And what cause it to go through the entire spectrum of colors? Thanks for info.

[ElyVonDoom]

@wr777 no. all stars act this way, you only notice this type of star because its light is brighter than the other star light which in turn makes the other stars seem less noticeable. kind of like seeing a hot lady with big boobs, she's goin to stand out more in a room than another hot lady with smaller boobs. take your camer a zoom in on a less bright star, it will be the same result.

[wr777]

@ElyVonDoom That sounds plausible. Thanks for the info. And do you know why myself, and quite a few other people over 30, only started noticing these stars about 5 years ago and can't remember ever seeing them before? I suppose we all could have simply never looked up in the right place, but I can still remember the first time I saw one of these. I even remember thinking, "wow, I've never seen a star anything like that." Seems strange after all these years of star gazing... Thanks again.

[SandtrooperDan]

So i'm not crazy, these things are out there. I see two in the night skies these days, one in the north and one in the West. I'm 40 yrs. old and don't ever remember seeing anything like these blinking planets before.

[tnasburypl]

These are spy satellites folks. Sorry nothing fun about them. By the way there are several other ones that are solid that are to the West. Most people only notice the flashing one first but then realize there is much more than just the flashing one.

[livelaughloveoften26]

i also live in texas and i seen one of these after me and the hubby got back from hunting. it was in the west after dark. im still unsure. people told me it might have been aircraft but im still skeptical. this think looked like it was moving up and down slowly. it did it for about 15 minutes but never moved out of sight. then poof right in front of our eyes it disappeared. i was in disbelief, thinking my eyes were playing tricks on me, but my husband seen it too. did yours move?

[XxLonelyRainnxX]

That's a UFO, not a star!

[coltoncasey15]

I am an amateur astronomer. I have been watching the skys for over 15 years and have never seen anything like this until 2008, i have seen it in texas as well as Illinois where I am from. this is not normal! i have no clue what it is but can tell you from experience it is not a star or a normal satellite

[Staroth999]

@ElyVonDoom So why does Google sky and all the rest have this star (Sirius) blocked out?

[tnasburypl]

These are mind control satellites. Planet earth will become the largest functional MRI in the galaxy.  DARPA's synthetic telepathy; silent talk program. Pretty awesome shit.

[ElyVonDoom]

@wr777 since i've moved to humble from west tx i miss those stary nights when you could see the stars, milkyway and shooting stars. nothing beats hanging out with long time friends drinking beer under a star filled sky.