My husband explained to me that planets don’t twinkle and that is one way to distinguish them from stars. There is a wonderful website called Stellarium, They also make a very useful app for your phone. You can set your location and look at how the sky looks from your location. You can advance forward or backwards in time by minutes, hours, even months or years. You can get into the settings and decide how much information you want, I have names of brightest stars, planets, the celestial equator and the meridian but I don’t have much more set right now because the map gets too cluttered. I keep it simple. I have learned so much from this! Hope this helps you!
My husband explained to me that planets don’t twinkle and that is one way to distinguish them from stars. There is a wonderful website called Stellarium, They also make a very useful app for your phone. You can set your location and look at how the sky looks from your location. You can advance forward or backwards in time by minutes, hours, even months or years. You can get into the settings and decide how much information you want, I have names of brightest stars, planets, the celestial equator and the meridian but I don’t have much more set right now because the map gets too cluttered. I keep it simple. I have learned so much from this! Hope this helps you!