I doubt it's got anything to do with being right on or otherwise. The two spellings are likely just different conventions for transposing the Arabic into English. I don't know Arabic, but you get sim… (View Post)

Abstention works. Abstention programmes don't work. (View Post)

Jupiter can be very bright, the fourth brightest natural object in the sky after the sun, the moon and Venus. It may possibly be beaten by occasional artificial objects such as ISS though, as well as… (View Post)

As well as being big, Jupiter also has a highly reflective upper cloud layer and its lit side always more or less faces Earth, so it looks bright despite its distance. It's well worth taking up TT's … (View Post)

It's almost certainly Jupiter. Jupiter is brilliant and white and not twinkly. Aldebaran is a reddish, not as bright and twinkles. (View Post)