Can anyone else see weird star tonight?

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It looks a bit like a still firework and I would love to know what it is. Can anyone else see this?

No but I’m going to look now!

Direction?

Could be a planet?

Take a look at the Night Sky app, it should tell you.

I really am rubbish at this aren't I? 🙈 I am looking out of my bedroom window which faces north west I believe

Mars and Jupiter will both be west north West-ish (assuming you're not in Canada or something). Mars is higher in the sky, Jupiter is much lower according to my app.

From googling I am wondering if it is T coronae borealis?

No. I am in the north of England

Not clear enough to see here but it sounds interesting.

There is a great app called SkySafari. It has a compass button on the bottom right. If you click this button and point your phone at the star you are looking at, it will tell you what it is.

Jupiter and Mars are between west and north west this evening

That sounds wonderful but according to the Google Play store it's a paid for app. Shame as that may have solved the mystery quickly

It's Sirius.
(seriously)

Sounds like Sirius, but there are loads of free apps too, like Sky Map or Stellarium.

Is it reddish/pinkish and twinkling?

I can see one that’s been around a few months - west. It kind of looks like 3 or 4 dots close together and is significantly bigger and brighter than the others, I just can’t tell if it’s my eyesight that’s making the dots blur and can’t focus despite much squinting. I assume it’s a planet.

I think it was Sirius too. The only way to describe it was that it looked a bit spiky

No though that sounds interesting too

I would like to know what that is too

We're the three stars of Orion's belt pointing towards it? Then Sirius, the dog star.

That sounds like it could be the Orion Nebula. It’s most easily seen during winter. If so it’s not your eyes, it looks like a blurry star.

https://astrobackyard.com/orion-nebula/

Sirius is the pole star i believe, so that should almost be directly overhead, I.E, you'd need to lean your head backwards to see it, rather than it being somewhere above the horizon.