Venus Distortions?
On April 26th at 9:15pm, I saw a bright star-like light about 20 degrees above the NWW horizon. The sun had set probably an hour and a half prior, and this light was brighter than any star I had seen before (much brighter than Jupiter). I thought it may have been either Venus or a plane high in the atmosphere being lit up by the sun, so I aimed my telescope at it to see. What i saw was unlike anything I have ever seen. It looked like about 50 stars of various intensities all individually oscillating in brightness. Some had different colors but I think that was probably chromatic aberration. The best thing I can liken it to is how Neverland in the old Peter Pan cartoon looked when they flew to it in the beginning and the camera zoomed into the star to show it gradually turn into an island.
Sorry for the crappy quality photo. I don't have good equipment and took this picture by holding my phone to the lens. It also wasnt this blurry, the bad quality here is due to me having to hold the phone myself. The orangish photo is orange because it was taken with a high exposure after sunset. I tried to recreate it in the following nights but was unable to. I'm fairly certain this is some form of atmospheric distortion or aberration but all pictures I've seen look nothing like this.
It is venus, but why did it look like this?