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What am I seeing in the sky every night?

Asked by El_Cadejo (34610points) January 23rd, 2012

Every night when I look up at the stars if I look in a certain direction I always see these two flashing lights. They’re about the same size as a star would be but they flash pretty rapidly from white to blue to greenish to red and back to white repeating this pattern all night.

When I first saw the lights I thought it was a plane or something but since I noticed it about a week ago its been in exactly the same spot every night. I know stars twinkle and what not but this is literally flashing. I was thinking possibly a pulsar star but I dont know enough about astronomy to know if thats something you could even detect with the naked eye.

My other thought would be maybe a satellite in geosynchronous orbit but again unno.

If it helps any, I’m currently in Belize and the flashing lights are NNEish.

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