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19 hours ago, Space_Cadet said:

Hi everyone - I’m a casual stargazer at best. I only bring the scope out to look at obvious things when there’s a good view (the moon, Jupiter, etc)

Well I noted a super bright star in the western sky this evening and figured it was Jupiter so I got the scope out.

When I got it in focus I had trouble identifying it because I couldn’t spot the four Galileans, but what I did see was something which I could only bring into focus by taking the planet out of focus - I figure it’s a lot closer to us than the planet. I took a wobbly picture of it with my phone to the eyepiece. Long shot, but can anyone tell me what it is? 

 

Was the object below and to the right a physical object? Because Venus has no moon.