what star or planet is that

[Leartes]

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sorry guys, but ive been looking at it for the past 1 hr already, and im wondering what star or planet could it be, the one on the southern sky, tan-awa ninyo look up sa south. bright yellowish glow...

[wanderingsoul]

I think that's Jupiter the news is talking about.
Around midnight it will be so close to the Earth that we can actually notice it right above us.
It says in the papers that that will happen again in 12 years.

[YJOB]

Jupiter will be closer to Earth tonight than it has been in nearly sixty years, and it will be the brightest object in the night sky (other than the moon) for the next few months.
Nat Geo spoke with an astronomy-type dude who explained the conditions:

“Oppositions of the Earth and Jupiter occur roughly every 400 days, due to Earth catching up to Jupiter and lapping it in its race around the sun,” said Raminder Singh Samra, resident astronomer at the H.R. MacMillan Space Centre in Vancouver, British Columbia.
“But because the orbits of the planets are slightly elliptical, the distances between oppositions vary, and so the next time [Earth and Jupiter] are this close won’t be until 2022.”

Assuming we all survive the Mayan apocalypse, of course. Jupiter isn’t the only planet showing off among the heavenly bodies of late- Uranus is also visible using only binoculars:

“As Uranus is about five times further away than Jupiter and about a third the size, it will be about 2,800 times fainter than Jupiter,” Singh said. But “being so close to each other in the sky, it will be possible to see both planets at the same time through a pair of binoculars.”

If you’ve got the binoculars out, you ‘ll also be able to see all four of Jupiter’s moons.

Source: Jupiter closest to Earth tonight since 1951

[crisxahia]

I think this should explain this.
Tonight | EarthSky

[rodsky]

You posted at around 7pm, Leartes. At around that time, Venus was around 12 degrees above the WSW horizon. Since you said "south", I'm assuming you saw Venus, it's brighter than Jupiter.

At around that same time, Jupiter was almost directly east, and less brighter than Venus.

-RODION

[coerce]

if you happen to look in the west kanina nya shiny kaayo na planet, that would be Venus. karon makita ang Jupiter, naa ras ubos sa Moon. I'm using stellarium right now hehehe. free dl ni xa na program, just google it.

[brandnewbien]

sayanga wa jd ko kta ani ganiha dah. bisperas man fiesta pardo gd, trapik kaau. dugay nuon au ko ka uli. hehe

[rodsky]

Mag lecture sa ko gamay, unsaon paggamit sa Stellarium

YouTube - Using Stellarium to Identify Bright Objects in the Night Sky

-RODION

[analog man]

OT

are we sure that it's jupiter or uranus?

[rodsky]

OT

are we sure that it's jupiter or uranus?

The one towards the east? Quite sure Our resident amateur astronomer here in Cebu, Chris Go, takes daily photos of Jupiter, and his RA/DEC values are the same Jupiter

I'm not sure about Uranus though--it's not a naked-eye object.

-RODION