What Is The Star

[nailedit]

just below the moon right now

(or is it a planet?)

[webbo3]

https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Science/Question1886201.html

[rockyracoon]

I think it's Venus

[albaqwerty]

It's Venus

[Radagast]

Jupiter.

[perseverer]

Definitely Jupiter. Venus is lower in the sky but south west.

[rockyracoon]

I was reading somewhere earlier that 7 planets will be visible, weather permitting, during the month of Jan.

[Tuvok]

Stars twinkle, planets don't.

Take a look at

https://in-the-sky.org

https://stellarium-web.org

..... and weather permitting a live stream tonight from 7.30: https://meet.google.com/dki-xbpx-zbj   (this is a genuine event, from a club that I know of.

 

[nailedit]

Theres a very bright luminory to the left of the moon which I thought was Venus.

[Tilly2]

It's definitely Jupiter, Nails.

Look north east for Mars and south west for Venus. Very clear here tonight.

[haras2]

Venus

[Sam1960]

jupiter  ...

https://stardate.org/night-sky

[douglas9401]

Uranus.

[melv16]

Jupiter. You can clearly see the moons with binoculars. 

[Old_Geezer]

A little unsure now. If twinkling is due to Earth's atmosphere, why would stars twinkle yet planets not do so ?

[Khandro]

This morning at daybreak it was warm yellow, N W and appeared to be a cluster or at least more than one, with the naked eye. ?

[perseverer]

Mars, reddish tinge, would have been pretty low in the sky in the northwest around daybreak. Castor and Pollux, twin stars of Gemini, close to Mars but not that close to look like a cluster. 

[Tuvok]

https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/space-science/why-do-stars-twinkle

[fiveleaves]

Venus is prominent at the moment. Saw it 9 days ago just above the then crescent moon