Colourful flashing star?

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I walked passed the window and out the corner of my eye i noticed a colourful flashing star green, blue, yellow and red! I called my parents and they look through the binoculars to and noticed it so im not going loopy but does anyone know what this is i have never seen it before? Its a half moon tonight there are a few stars in the sky and this is being the brightest flashing, through the binoculars you can see it a little closer and it looks like a fireworks sparkler colours like a candle lit so blue green at the bottom and red and yellow at the top its stayed in the same place for more than an hour now what is it?
Anyone else seen this?
 
No. Seems interesting. Take some pictures? Or videos for all of us to see? And where was this at?
 
Sounds like it is the star called Sirius, also known as the Dog Star. It is the brightest extrasolar star in the sky, peaking at a magnitude of -1.58, and has a white dwarf companion. It is blueish-white, but due to scintillation, it can appear all the colours of the rainbow.
 
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