Can someone tell me the name of that star?

[Razsky]

Hi guys!

I have searching thru all resources that i have access to but i still can't find an ans. Was helping you guys can help me out.

On tuesday night, at around.. erm.. 11 to 1am? I was peering thru my kitchen window for some stars. I was do some simple obs using my 6x30 finder and remember observing the 4 stars of ursa major right in front. It was then that a small patch of clouds cleared and 2 other stars appeared. They were on right of ursa major. At that time, i could see from my compass that ursa major slightly left of north. The 2 stars were slighty right of north. They were around 40 to 50 degrees high.

A look thru my finder showed 2 bright dots. In fact, i thought that one of them was mars as i don't notice any flickering. The other star however, flickered. It was like 3 mins where the clouds started coming in again and blocked out everything. Even ursa was gone.

It was then that i recall that that couldn't be mars. So i retreated back to my computer and attempted to mark out all the stars i saw. But i just cannot find those 2 stars. I have been trying to get a look last night but the weather was bad. Will try tonight as sky looks promising.

But till then, can anyone tell me the star/constellation i saw?

Thanks
Razsky

[cataclysm]

Hi Razsky, if I am not wrong, you are looking at Bootes constellation. The Mars like star is Arcturus, the alpha star.

[wucheeyiun]

Kevin is right, The flickering yellow bright star is Acturus ( it is a Giant Sun much larger then ours) It is one of the star you can use for alignment and collimation, so you got to remember where to look for it .

[Clifford60]

Mars is about north of Orion.