Is it true you can see the stars in the daytime from the bottom of a well?
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I fell in a well once...I wish now I would have paid attention, but I got knocked for a loop.....so yea, I guess I did see stars after all!!! LOL
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I have a guess, what yous saw was planet Jupiter.  No, Venus can not be seen exactly between East and West in the middle of the night.
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Yes, absolutely. No binoculars or telescopic equipment needed. They normally look like fast-moving lights - a bit like a plane except (normally) no flashes. When they reach the Earth's shadow they disappear quickly, so it's normally best to look for them after dusk or an hour or so before the dawn. Log into the website below with your current latitude and longitude coordinates and you will be able to predict where and when a satellite will be visible in the sky. It's not unusual to be able to spot 5 or 10 satellites on any one night. \n\nThe International Space Station is particularly bright when it passes over. \n\nSpecial satellites cause what is known as an "Iridium Flare" which is so bright you can see it during the day. You'll find more details about Iridium flares in the website below.
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You can even see the Moon in the daytime because it is big and brightly lit by the Sun. The surface of the Moon is about as reflective as an asphalt road--rather dark but not totally black. When you look at the Moon, you are seeing the light which reflects off it. This is not nearly as bright as the Sun, but it is up to 100,000 times as bright as the brightest nighttime star. \nDuring the day, the brightness of the sky washes out the light from the stars: a region of the sky including a bright star is only very slightly brighter than a region of the sky without a bright star, so your eye cannot notice the difference. However, the region of the sky containing the Moon is much brighter, so you can see it. You can also sometimes see Venus during the day if the conditions are right and you know exactly where to look, but anything dimmer is lost. \n\nIt might be useful to think of the sun as a large light bulb, and the moon as a large mirror. There are situations where we can't see the light bulb, but we can see the light from the bulb reflected in the mirror. This is the situation when the moon is out at night. We can't see the sun directly because the earth is blocking our view of it, but we can see its light reflected from the moon. However, there are also situations where we can see both the light bulb and the mirror, and this is what is happening when we see the moon during the day. You can explore this for yourself with a light and a hand mirror. Depending on which way you face (away from the light or sideways to the light) you can see either just the mirror, or both the light and the mirror. \n\nI hope this helps!
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yes, it is the layer underground where the water that precipitates through the groundrock reaches. thats where wells tap from. it normally collects on a layer of nonporous rock which can be a varying depths below the ground we walk on.
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I think the rings of Uranus are too tenuous to occlude starlight to a detectable degree. I don't believe those rings were actually discovered until we sent out probes to a point where they were directly visible. \n\n30 NOV 06, 1953 hrs, GMT.
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We do have them in the day, just they not show up as well. Many seem more numerous before dawn, because they best seen then or the angle they hit the atmosphere at that time. All I know.
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Venus (called the Morning Star as it is visible in twilight) should be pretty bright in the eastern sky. \n\nI'm ignoring the moon or sun as you will immediately recognise them (hopefully). the moon appears at different positions at different times of the month.
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You can also get weird phenomenons in the desert or other high-temperature places. Pockets of air of different rotation or heat can reflect light in such a manner that objects hangs upside down in the air instead of being behind a hill for example.\n\nNot that I've ever heard of complete suns being visible. The ice-particles can refract into bi-solars, yes, but as I recall you only see parts of the sun on each side of it. Not complete circular "suns".
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refraction from the atmosphere magnifies.  When the moon, or sun, is low on the horizon, you're looking through more of the atmosphere to see it.
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You can see many of them with the naked eye, and some of the get pretty darn bright.  You can even see the inetrantional space station when it passes overhead.  Of course any of these objects will jusst look like a star moving across the sky at a decent rate.  But it is pretty cool.\n\nhttp://www.heavens-above.com will tell you exactly what is visible from your location on any night, as well as where to look.  You'll need a little bit of amature astronomy knowledge (magnitudes, reading a starchart) to get much out of it, but it is an awsome resource for this kind of thing.
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look at the stars in th upper left hand corner
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Like others have already said, from Maine you can see the Big Dipper at night all year 'round.  Right now in the early evening, the Big Dipper is low in the north northeast, so if you have a lot of trees along your northern horizon you might have a hard time spotting it. It's upright at this time, like a frying pan on a stove.  Around 2 am or so the Big Dipper is in the north east, standing up on its handle (so it looks like a giant question mark).  At sunrise it will be about at its highest above the northern horizon, upside-down.\n\nHere are two of my favorite websites for star charts:\nhttp://www.skymaps.com/  This one gives you a printable sky map for the early evening sky for the current month.  I think they're set for 40 degrees north, but at 45 degrees north things really aren't much different.\nhttp://skytonight.com/  Here they have an interactive sky chart where you can enter in your location and observing time/date, which is very convenient.  But if you print it out it's not as pretty as the one from the first website.\n\nHappy observing!
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No, this is an urban legend.  See the reference\nfor pictures taken by one of our astronauts\ndisproving it.\n\nNow if you're talking about being visible from\nsomewhere farther out in space (like the moon\nor another planet), then the answer is different.\n\nBut from a shuttle, things like open pit mines,\nairports, dams, and even the Great Pyramids are\nvisible.
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Midnight 'till about 2a ET.  Find a spot where there are no lights in your eyes and stare at the sky.  I hope you see some shooting stars.  Make a wish if you do...
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when the light from the stars enter the earth's atmosphere, the light wave bends and refracted until it reach our eyes. So because it is refracted, when we look at it, it seems to be twinkling.
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It is where you want it.\n\n"Second Star to the right, and straight on til morning"  is how you get there.\n\n"If you close your eyes, you may see a pool of lovely pale colors. If you squeeze them tighter, the pool will take on different shapes, and the colors will become brighter - so bright, that in a moment they'll go on fire. And in that moment, just before they do, you will see Never Land."  Is how you can see it, if only just for a moment.