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Originally Posted by The_bluester
Another option would be to install Stellarium on your PC, you can then set your location in it's settings, adjust the observation date and time to match when you saw whatever it was, and have a look at what might have been visible at that time. As others have said, anything low in the SSW at 8:30PM will not be higher in the west at 1AM. If it is close enough to the pole that it does not set, it will rotate around the to be more toward the SSE as the night goes on. It might be two different objects.
I can't comment on anything visually elongated, individual stars are really pinpoints visually, even in a telescope.
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Thanks Paul, yes I did that as you suggested with Stellarium but could not see anything similar. Due to my inexperience it could be two different objects yes, but the size and uniqueness of shape and colours that I have not seen in that part of the sky suggested to me that it is the same thing. Interesting though about the rules of rising in relation to the position etc.