What is that twinkly thing in the sky?

Think it's a space station

you are lucky, I can`t pick out stuff in the sky.. I just see a myriad of stars.. beautiful, but just lots of twinkles

Thank you Lisagran. I have been noticing the bright 'star' for the past month and kept meaning to google to confirm that it is Venus. I also see a rainbow colours aura around it but thought it was an effect caused by the double glazing

They are watching to make sure we are all staying inside so that the earth can heal....

Phew! Thought it was just me and I was seeing things. At first sight I thought aircraft but it wasnt as it didnt move.

If you enter your location here, you'll be able to find out when you can see it from your area, and for how long.

spotthestation.nasa.gov/sightings/view.cfm?country=United_Kingdom®ion=England&city=London#.Xn8en9ynxxA

Great link Chewbacca, thank you. ?
I have forwarded it to several people ...

Great thread Eglantine, we were looking at (what we now know is) Venus, last night and marvelling at the wonders of the universe... ?⭐️

I've been reading a thread on facebook and it seems this could be the Starlink satellite network: Designed to provide global Internet service, the Starlink network is one of several “mega-constellations” of broadband satellites. SpaceX is in competition with OneWeb, Amazon and Telesat, which are also developing fleets of hundreds to thousands of small Internet relay satellites in low Earth orbit.
Also known as the Starlink 4 Train.

how to see the Starlink network

Venus

Thanks everyone who posted the link to earth sky.org/tonight.
Just signed up to this...something to look forward to.
Birdsong during the day...the stars at night. Fabulous.

Are you looking out of an open or closed window? I sometimes see colours round lights when I look out of my double-glazed windows

Could it be a tea tray in the sky?

Sorry, I was thinking of my uncle's unofficial version of "twinkle, twinkle, little star" Do you know it?

Twinkle, twinkle little bat,
How I wonder what you're at!
Up above the world so high,
Like a tea tray in the sky.
Twinkle, twinkle, little bat,
How I wonder what you're at!

New moon just below the planet last night----shaped like a toe-nail. Beautiful.

I've never seen a night sky as magnificent as in Australia though with its myriads of stars and the Southern Cross a formation only seen in the Southern hemisphere.
Masses of meteorites too ( shooting stars )

It is Venus

shaped like a toe nail

That made me laugh - a very romantic description of a new moon

We viewed the night sky through a telescope in the outback, EllanVannin - just awe inspiring

I hate to possibly dispel some illusions, but a neighbour has said this is a space station. Don't know if this is true, but he works in this field; he is an astrophysisist.
I saw the new moon last night - wonderful; a golden crescent. Years ago when I lived in London and was visiting a friend in the country - no light pollution - we stood in her garden and looked up at the stars on a cloudless night. There were so many that it took my breath away - an endless beauty stretching right across the night sky. I had never experienced such a glorious sight.

It's Venus - the space station moves across the sky, taking about 4 minutes to traverse overhead. It certainly seems to be much more twinkly than usual! Less pollution is my guess.

The space station moves across the sky.

Venus is the Evening Star at the moment and is very bright in the early evening and will be visible until about the end of May.
It will then disappear and appear as the Morning Star in June.

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Spent all morning working out the technology to post this?

Could it be the Comet that's heading towards us. It passes this way every 5500 years.
Was reading about it a few days ago. Its going to get brighter in the coming weeks.

ITS A SATELITTE ..... i looked too .its to low to be venus...

Well, Venus does rise from low on the horizon in the west at the moment.

Perhaps we're all looking at something different

We have one keen amateur astronomer and one astro-physicist in the family and what we looked at was Venus.
Perhaps others are looking at the space station, a comet or an alien spacecraft.

Who knows.

Maybe it's spaceships from Mars waiting til the virus has wiped us all out before invading in War of the Worlds 2. Only joking - I hope! Stay safe and well everyone.