“Brighter than any star, but, not as bright as Venus.”
Saw it on a camp out in a VERY dark sky area on Saturday and it was definitely brighter than Venus. It was so bright it’s color was noticeably red and I thought it was Mars until I check star charts. And it was way more bright than Mars usually is.
Not quite.
Jupiter is -2.5 mag right now
Venus is -3.9
Venus is lower, but, more than 5 times brighter than Jupiter right now.