A couple of small bright objects, stars or planets?

[richfororbit]

Hello,

I took these from my bedroom window, this is from Greater London county/city, the North area. Looking west from there, so when I took these Scotland was north where the lights below.

http://postimg.org/image/e3no76qgr/
http://postimg.org/image/pmpwrvgnf/
http://postimg.org/image/pmpwrvgnf/

The third one has two objects, the same as first two, I was able to include the other object. They were taken using a standard digital camera. Perhaps I could of done better with it.

All I have to do is just turn around from my computer to see that one object, it's great!

 

[N_Molson]

I'd say that the brightest one is Venus, little doubt, especially at sunrise/sunset.

For the other one try to run Orbiter at the exact date and time you took the photo, place the camera at your coordinates (set decimal format on Google Earth), look at the same direction you were and activate the planetarium mode. Planets will be displayed in yellow boxes (you should get Venus), and you'll get the names of major stars / constellations nearby.

 

[BerZerK]

Hello there!

If its VERY bright either in the morning or evening its 99% Venus
The other one is Jupiter
And right in between those two planets
is Pollux a star in the constellation of Gemini.
A bit more down Procyon
And in the upper left Regulus in Lion

Just set the date and time in this online map to see for yourself
http://www.astronomie.de/online-planetarium/

 

[richfororbit]

Hmm, so Venus to the right, and the left is Jupiter.

I can only see those two, I've been seeing them ever since we move to this new location. Anything else is just not there, otherwise I'd of taken a snap of them.

I never thought about it, only having orbit the Earth many times over in the simulator, I wanted to eventually find out.

 

[BerZerK]

Well the mentioned stars are significantly fainter, maybe thats why you dont note them.

 

[richfororbit]

Here is another image, taken at 9:18PM as of tonight, GMT.

http://postimg.org/image/gvscg60en/

 

[PhantomCruiser]

Yep, Venus (or Lucifer for those with a "classical" education) and Jupiter.

Neat Planetarium program, I hadn't seen that one before. I'd always used this one http://neave.com/planetarium/

 

[richfororbit]

http://postimg.org/image/fd14t84lv/

Sure is further east now than it was weeks back, and much brighter, that's Jupiter trailing to the west of Venus.

 

[Soheil_Esy]

I took these from my bedroom window

There was a dedicated thread for this kind of post:
Astrophoto thread (your own photos please):http://orbiter-forum.com/showthread.php?t=1316