When you use a telescope or binoculars to see the star what do you see?

Question

Do you see like a round object, colourful and looks like there is electricity going around the star.

Answer 1

Yess..i like to see around object,around my house..I hope one day i have a powerful binocular..

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Answer 2

A point of light. Sounds like you have cheap binoculars!

Answer 3

Just a dot.

You may be looking at Jupiter - very bright, and up most of the night.  There are often 4 dots in a line near it.  Those are Jupiter's biggest moons.

Answer 4

you still see a blusih point of light but with most good optics you're also able to see constellations which the naked eye can't detect unaided.

  

Answer 5

It's still just a point of light, even in very large telescopes. Betelgeuse is one of the few stars that's huge enough and near enough to almost be resolvable as a disc.

They are brighter in scopes and binoculars, though.

Answer 6

Stars are brighter in a telescope, but still pinpoints of light.  Some have color to them like red or blue, which is a bit more obvious in a telescope.  Cheap refractor telescopes (and binoculars) will have a lot of chromatic aberration, which will impart "false" colors, different colors of light have different refractive indexes, which get "split" like a prism will do.

Answer 7

its like having your eyes half opened at watching at the trafic lights.

Answer 8

It depends on the size of the telescope. For the little telescope that we can put in the back yard, yeah, you see a speck of light, just a little round blob. Especially with the atmosphere which blurs everything to a blob.

But through a big enough telescope (like billions of dollars worth!) you could see details like flares. They could look like electricity.

Check out my link to see pictures of stars.

Answer 9

In a perfect telescope, on an atmospherically perfect night, you will see a tiny round disc (the 'Airy disc') surrounded  fainter circles of light that get progressively fainter the further they are from the star. In a less-than-perfect telescope or on a normal night this will be subject to aberrations added by the optics and the atmosphere.

Answer 10

a star. the better the binoculars or telesscope, the sharper the point of light you see. my very best telessscope cost as much as a nice used car and stars look like mathematical points.