Trivia Question of the Day

[G-CPTN]

What is the star that is visible to the south-west about 19:00 to 20:00 (I am at 55degN and 2degW)?

[Pontius Navigator]

Jupiter

[G-CPTN]

Not Jupiter

[PHXPhlyer]

Smartphone with Google Sky should tell you.

PP

[G-CPTN]

Don't have a smartphone.

[Pontius Navigator]

Elevation?

[Woody]

Uranus

[G-CPTN]

Elevation?

Probably just gone below the horizon.

[Pontius Navigator]

Must be Saturn then. I fancied I saw the rings top left/bottom right but my binos weren't good enough to rule out Jupiter. They were good enough to see the southern craters on the moon.

[G-CPTN]

Not Saturn.

[G-CPTN]

It was/is Venus - the evening star.

OH

[Pontius Navigator]

Fair dink, https://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/night/uk/london
I thought it was a bit late. But at least it wasn't a star.

[G-CPTN]

Yes - to have correctly identified it as a planet when to the casual observer it appears to be a star would have narrowed the choices - apologies if that lead to confusion.

I was scrabbling for a question to pose when I saw it - I only expected it to last a couple of minutes (the question, not the object).

[Pontius Navigator]

O'dark hundred one morning in the North of Scotland there were reports of a UFO. As it happens a couple of us were driving East at the time. No doubts whatever as so we could see 3 or 4 of its moons. Spectacular with the moons creating a star shape.

[Capetonian]

What country is :

The smallest Muslim nation in the world?

100 per cent Muslim?

[Rwy in Sight]

Bangladesh?

[Capetonian]

No. Bangladesh is pretty big in comparison.

[Smeagol]

How about Brunei?

[Capetonian]

Another negative.

[ian16th]

In which way the smallest?
Population?
Area?