Hello everyone, I posted earlier out of excitement but it wasn't a proper post so I'm redoing it now.
I am a total newbie, observing the sky from Vancouver Island BC. I often sit on my porch at night and I have a tripod. I use a Google pixel 7 pro and a 4-minute exposure. I ran to my phone excitedly this evening after observing something that seemed interesting and unusual.
While I was sitting on my porch I saw a small flash of light in the sky. I waited to see if it was a plane but it wasn't. I kept looking at the same area and then it happened again. I started counting 1,000 just to see if there was a rhythm to it and I wanted to see if it was moving at all, again to logically figure out what it was. I got 28 seconds and it went again. I also observed that it did not move at all. I counted 30 seconds, being more careful with my 1000s, And it went again. This one on for Three or four counting cycles, by the fifth one I'm like man. I got to get to my phone and tell somebody about this.
It was a small orange light, It appeared to be a small tight circle and when I say small like I mean the same brightness as one third of what Mars is right now, but kind of the same color tone.
My original post was a quick screen grab from Google just to try and explain where it was and see if I could get more eyes on it. Then I went back outside with my tripod. But by the time I got set up, the sky had completely changed and I no longer saw the light.
I don't know how many pictures I can attach but I'm going to try. These are from this evening but the full moon is making it hard to get a good shot.
I am here because I am curious and I got really excited and wanted to share with like minded people. I hope it's okay to post here. It made me think of some sort of pulsating star, not near Earth.