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What the heck is this star I'm tracking? @BobMcGwier_N4HY @uaptn I superimposed two different AR app views of the sky with the boxed item. Nothing of sufficient magnitude should be that visible in that area. Two apps should be confirming, but I don't trust it.
Object is blurred because of phone motion. It's a super bright (bright as Venus which I clearly see to the left) but I can't identify this thing. I don't think it's abnormal, just me unable to get the apps to play along. Should be here-ish.
Here's the magnitude problem. It's literally the only bright enough object on screen to see here above the house across the street.
So I can't see Orion or Cassiopeia. I just see this one. By the charts nothing but maybe Capella is bright enough, but I see it and Venus and they're where the app says they should be - so what the hell am I doing wrong here?
It being a fixed object is ruled out too, it's moving with the other stars. It's gone behind the trees now. Here I'm pointing just left of it with a lensatic compass app.
The actual angle to it is 329 degrees. I dunno what that 125 SE nonsense is coming from. I guess phone orientation. Verified with the stock compass app with vertical phone orientation.
@uaptn @BobMcGwier_N4HY It's consistently observable, so I'll try again tomorrow night. Bunch of images in this thread that twitter decided to not @ you on. It's just a star or planet, nothing dramatic, but the apps just don't ID it at all. Making me crazy.
