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What is currently rising in the eastern evening sky?

I saw what I thought was a planet but I am not sure. It was in the east - southeastern sky and was basically red in color.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Being as you stated 'evening' sky, I'll take a shot in the dark (ha ha) and guess that you are talking about some time before midnight, but after full dark. I'm guessing it is the planet Jupiter.

    Jupiter is not red, but when any object is rising just above the horizon it will appear reddened by the additional atmosphere it is shining through.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    That was/is Jupiter. The only reason it is reddish when close to the horizon is because the thick layers of the Earth's air close to the horizon are refracting more red rays of sunlight toward and along the surface of the Earth than the reflected sunlight of other colors. Everything can appear orangish or reddish when it is close to the horizon.

  • 1 decade ago

    jupiter and neptune is rising in the east. using binoculars, neptune's color is blue and jupiter has a shade of red, brown and white. jupiter will be the brightest object rising in the east southeast after midnight.

    :)

  • 1 decade ago

    Jupiter is rising then

    Later in the night he comes much higher in the south

    day by day it moves to right, so it will rise each time earlier, so also earlier highest in south

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    The planet Venus.

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