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Apr 26, 2023 1:33 PM CST
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breith95 said: ok. what is the planet I've been seeing early morning western sky? very bright. I was thinking it could be venus.

If this is the rough position, it's Arcturus. These screenshots are taken from Stellarium, an excellent and free astronomy program that I use often. You can move the time ahead or back to see what it was that you saw at any given time. And did I mention it's free?

Showing location of star at 6:15am Central DST:
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Info shown at left about any object you click on:
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Full view so you get the idea of what Stellarium will give you, but I didn't think the info would be very readable when resized for the forums, so broke it up into 2 images above:
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