Looking at the clear sky right now and (any astronomers here?)...

[mustang1]

From YouTube Crash Course Astronomy #2:

Twinkling happens because the air over our heads is turbulent and as it blows past, it distorts the incoming light from stars making them appear to slightly shift position and brightness several times per second.

Is this what I witnessed when I said I thought I saw a star moving in my OP ?

 

[Salty seadog]

Naked eye astronomy can be interesting in it's own right. I had a crack at it, but having the attention span of a worm I immediately became interested in tracking satellites...and then decoding their signals....and then bouncing ham radio signals off them...

I mat look like a Ukranian born GRU assassin, but I'm a huge closet nerd.

You're out of the closet mate.

 

[Salty seadog]

From YouTube Crash Course Astronomy #2:

Twinkling happens because the air over our heads is turbulent and as it blows past, it distorts the incoming light from stars making them appear to slightly shift position and brightness several times per second.

Is this what I witnessed when I said I thought I saw a star moving in my OP ?

It may have been a satellite. The twinkling thing wouldn't make a star look like it's moving as such just wobbling on the spot .

 

[Deleted member 1258]

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html

 

[Salty seadog]

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html

The first pic of last year's lunar eclipse is timely. We have a total lunar eclipse on Monday night from about 2.30am to about 7am with the peak at about 5am.

 

[Illaveago]

Thanks @Drago - I think I found it: Cygnus.

Over here https://www.artofmanliness.com/articles/15-constellations-every-man-should-know/
in the diagram of Cygnus, I was viewing the three stars in the upper right which are in (an almost) horizontal line plus a few stars around that region.

Edit: @User9609, ah ok, maybe Orion then.

I find that Orion looks like an old type of kite with a tail, that's the way I can usually spot it .

 

[Beebo]

I use the Night Sky app.
It is very easy to use just hold it up to the sky to see what is up there. or down (it will show up below the horizon too)
Also shows the space station and other interesting stuff.
It is great for planet spotting.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

And how exactly did the Dogon people know about Sirius B before it was discovered by modern astronomers?

Star book. The people of Sirius B had a really active group but the data was harvested by the Dogon hackers via a worm hole that had no security protection.

 

[Drago]

For satellite tracking I use Heavens Above. There are many such amazing apps out there now.

You're out of the closet mate.

I'm like Tony Stark, a hyper intelligent man of action. It's the billionaire bit where I went wrong.

 

[tom73]

Openlearn (open university free learning site) have loads of stuff to get you started.

https://www.open.edu/openlearn/search-results?as_q=astronomey

They also have a great free interactive book about the moon. (via apple books)

 

[numbnuts]

I use this one
https://stellarium.org/
If you look for Orion find Betelgeuse top left, now look to the right for a cluster of stars Pleiades they are blueish in colour, on a dark night you can see them with the naked eye.