Recent content by enkaydee

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    Exploding star?

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    Exploding star?

    The planes that come in for landing here are already flying very low (much lower than where we were looking that night), and are flying over the ocean (to the West) from North to South, roughly (So they were flying away from us). Either way, if it was an airplane, that turned its landing lights...
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    Exploding star?

    Oh wow, I never thought of that. It does make sense, and seems likely. Thank you!
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    Exploding star?

    Hi all, Last night (Sunday February 6th) at almost exactly 8pm Hawaii time, we were watching Orion's Belt and looking at Orion's Nebula. I wasn't looking through the telescope at this moment, but I saw a star seem to expand rapidly, getting brighter, and brighter... Then it just disappeared. It...