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Rainbow Colors Observed When Viewing the Moon with Binoculars
I believe what you were seeing is chromatic aberration from your binocular’s optics, which causes different wavelengths of light…

Twinkling Star?
There are many atmospheric phenomena that produce “twinkling” behaviour in astronomical and human-made objects. From Austin Texas this time…

Twinkling Stars Due to the Earth’s Atmospheric Motions
Very likely what you are seeing is the Earth’s atmosphere along the path from you to the star moving…

Lens Flare While Observing Venus
I believe that what you are seeing in your images of Venus are internal reflections of scattered light in…

How the Earth’s Atmosphere Can Influence What a Star Looks Like
It is very likely that what you were seeing was a patch of the Earth’s atmosphere with an elevated…