White Blue
What is the sparkly, red, white, blue body in the North American night sky? Saturn?
I'm very recently interested in the night sky and I'm investigating a star/planet. It's in the North-western sky in the northern hemisphere (Ohio, USA) and mid-low maybe 40º off the horizon. Most notably it's sparkle is very bright and dramatic and blues/red/whites are easily seen. I only see Saturn in the nightsky guides, but they show it in the West to Southwest for my location.
There is the star Capella that could fit your description (although it is a lot less than 40 degrees above the horizon). Being very bright, we can still see it when it is low, its light coming to us after crossing a lot of the atmosphere at a shallow angle.
That causes a lot of refraction, causing excessive twinkling and the apparent changes in colors (that is because the refraction is slightly different for each color).
The twinkling is due to the fact that stars appear as very tiny objects and the angle of refraction caused by the air can be bigger than the apparent size of the star.
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Saturn is much higher and is yellowish. Because planets are a lot closer than stars, they do have a larger apparent size (even if it is still too small for our eyes to notice). Because of that, they will often be seen as NOT twinkling, even though stars around them are.
Saturn is to the South, or SSW; definitely not NW.
Capella is NW by the time the sky gets dark.
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