[outofsalt]

Venus! They will be a little closer tomorrow.

[outofsalt]

https://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/night/

[BobL]

You picked a good night to go outside!

https://earthsky.org/tonight

The rule for planets is that they don’t twinkle, just a solid light. You can easily see Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn (but not its rings without optics). If you know when and where to look (and if the conditions are right), you can also see Mercury and Youranus. Forget Neptune and Pluto.

[Old Man From WV]

I saw it too here in WV. It was pretty awesome and I wondered if it was significant of anything?

[Rockingham]

It could be a star, a planet, an airplane, a meteorite, or even a satellite. I have been fooled by all of them into thinking I had seen something unexplained. The key is to keep looking and do your research.

[RandallFlagg]

You can get on the ISS email list, and you’ll receive emails telling you when the space station will be flying over your area.
If it happens to do so on a clear spring or summer evening at sunset, the diminishing sunlight might hit the solar panels at just the right angle.
The effect will look like the ISS is dropping bombs from orbit.
Looks pretty cool.

[ThanhPhero]

In Cam Đức, a small town in 2003 when I went out at night the sky was blanketed with millions of stars and the Milky Way looked like a picture in Discover. In 2019 with the electricity being reliable now and not going out for days at a time, it's not like that any more. Too much light from the now city. One can see the moon and a dozen stars, maybe.

[TexasGator]

I have apps on my phone for this.

[MacNaughton]

Sky & Telescope - This Week’s Sky at a Glance, December 27 – January 4

[coaster123]

GoSkyWatchP the app.

Looking for something? The app will point to it. Wonder what something is? Just point and see.

Good sky app.

[PROCON]

That light is a reflection of all the choking CO₂ that man-made climate change^TM has caused from all the capitalism that's going on here on Mother Erf.

If you don't believe me you're a denier!

HOW DARE YOU!!

[Exit148]

One time when my DH and I were anchored off the coast of Maine there was a sight I’ll never forget and can see it as I type. We were about nine miles off the coast anchored near an island and the water was as still as I’d ever seen it. Just a sheet of glass, and it was a dark and starry night. The Stars SHONE on the water surface!!! What a sight!

[lizma2]

Venus does this every once in a while.

I think one of the most wonderful thing I've ever seen was a night time sky when I camped out in the Utah deserts.

[LouieFisk]

“See Venus and the Moon Shine Together in Post-Christmas Gift (Earthshine, Too!)”
https://www.space.com/see-venus-moon-earthshine-dec-28-2019.html

[GotMojo]

I saw it tonight around 5:30pm over NYC, I did a double take as I thought it was a passing plane......

[Windflier]

saw the moon,in a "crescent" phase

Why the quotation marks? You quoting someone?

[msrngtp2002]

I installed an app on my phone named constellation map. Once you tell it where you are you ain the phone at the sky and it identifies all the stars and constellations. Pretty cool app.

[MHGinTN]

On a drive up to Greenbank, West Virginia one night in early summer, a decade or two ago, I drove into a valley with zero light pollution on a crystal clear night, no Moon up. The experience was so compelling that I pulled off the road and got out to just take it in with the vehicle lights off.

The starlight was so bright I could see cows in the distance and when I dropped a penny to the ground I could see it clear enough to pick it up from the grass! The Milky Way stretched from horizon to horizon.

[Randy Larsen]

I saw it too, my wife pointed it out to me.

[Swordmaker]

Congratulations, you just mistook a planet, Venus, for an Unidentified Flying Object. LOL! Not hard to do when it is appears somewhere you don’t expect it to be. . . So you get a pass.