I know exactly what you’re talking about. It’s been there for years, at least in my area. It never varies like other stars and planets, it always rises in the same spot 24/7. There’s another like it in the east, and it’s NOT Serias (the star)
It weaves and bobs, brightens and flares, and pretends it belongs there. Sometimes it seems to come in closer and sometimes it seems to back off but stays in the same relative area. I’ve tried to view it through a cheap telescope but all you could see was a weaving, bobbing, sparkling (throbbing it seems..each throb a different color) and I couldn’t make anything out of it. Same with good binoculars.
I don’t know what it is, but it’s just there and has been for at least 20 years or so. No seasonal changes...has to be man made.
I’m really glad you mentioned it though.
I guess I will have to start paying attention to it more.
It definitely was unusual.
I have seen what some think are UFO’s on the horizon but the fact is that stars on the horizon look like they are rotating and changing colors. That is a trick of the atmosphere and light bouncing off various layers of the atmosphere.
This was definitely not changing colors, just bouncing around.
please keep in touch. I’ll take a look again tomorrow night.
I can spot Serias, Mars Jupiter and the Pleiades with no problem whatsoever.
You call yourself PrairieLady. Where are you from?