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Originally Posted by astro744
That would be Jupiter with four visible moons. Both Jupiter and Saturn are in the evening sky between N & E after end of twilight. Saturn also has a few visible moons. Venus is in the same direction but in the early morning hours before sunrise. Venus is also visible all day (unaided) until it sets before the Sun in the early afternoon. It is currently the morning 'star' and in a few months will move back to the evening sky and become the evening 'star'. Of course 'star' in Venus' case refer to planet.
I highly recommend Stellarium for PC/Mac and app.
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No idea why I wrote Venus instead of Jupiter!
When I saw it it was the one time the go to found it straight away and I got good tracking after initial single star alignment using Arcturus.
I would like to use Stellarium but resorted to CDC due to problems. If I access Stellarium as a stand alone program all is fine, but when I than access the scope using Stellarium with EQMOD the horizontal (bottom of screen) menu icons all disappear and are inaccessible. I have an ASUS i7 laptop running Windows 10 64bit. If I mod the Stellarium ini file to say "hide horizontal menu = FALSE" instead of the default option of TRUE Stellarium then freezes.