You take your new cell phone with 10-megapixel camera and photograph the object with a shaking hands. The video that "clearly" shows the object as it changes shape and color, ends up on the cover of a national newspaper and even on TV...
Similar stories became (too) frequent in our neighbourhood, from cabbage theft in Čepin, police pursuit for UFOs and the couse of fires in Dalmatia, or the strange lights seen in the north Adriatic, to recent event in Knin. Are those things really UFOs (
UNIDENTIFIED Flying Objects)? Yes, flying, at least it seems like they're flying, and yes, unidentified for the most people. Aliens? No, I don't think they care too much about fires in Dalmatia. What do astronomers think about all that? Who cares what they think, tomorow we'll all talk about something else. Right?
Wrong! It's good to know what astronomers say and to inform yourself so you don't end up like in the story at the begining. To save yourself from shame (and keep the T-shirt clean), let's try and convert some
UFOs into
IFOs (Identified Flying Objects).
Anonymus members commonly hear about UFOs. Over the last few months, planet
Venus, also known as the Evening star, shines in the western skies and is the common source of confusion among ordinary people. As it gets lower and nearer to horizon, it twinkles and changes color, because of refraction of light in the atmosphere. Here you can see how it looks when filmed with a
cell phone (recorded by a friend of mine from Valpovo). Just like "real" UFO! Compare it with a photograph of UFO from Knin (left).
Many people are unaware that
artificial (man-made) satellites flying in orbit around Earth can be seen very nicely with naked eyes. These days Space shuttle docked with an International Space Station (
ISS), and you can see them every night. They look like a bright star that moves rapidly accross the sky. For charts/maps and satellite visibility information go to
Heavens Above. Current satellite positions can be also seen on our
java applet. Then there are
Iridiums, telecommunication satellites that flare on occasions even brighter than Venus! It's a real joy to observe them, and sometimes they can be seen in a broad daylight.
Then there are many different
atmospheric phenomena like hallos, rainbows, nocticulent clouds, aurorae borealis, coronae etc. Also
astronomical phenomena like conjunctions of planets, zodiacal light, meteors and comets. Take a look at our
photo gallery, you'll find many interesting events there (even a photo of aliens mining cheese from the Moon :-)).
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Imagine yourself strolling with an ice-cream in your hand, enjoying the wonderful and warm evening, you look up into the starry sky and... You don't believe your eyes! From the excitement ice-cream lands directly on your favourite T-shirt, you curse the pastrycook and his whole family for making the damn thing, simultaneously shout : "There it is!" waving towards the sky like a lunatic. People stare at you in wonder and whisper "yet another madman", "it must be the ice-cream" and "forget the fool".
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