I cant believe i found this one. better watch it before its gone
Yeah, I seen the same thing in my telescope.
The first time I looked at a star at night through my telescope, it looked like the moon. I think the distortion of the star can be explained away with atmosphere interference.
there used to be so many of these cool vids of real stars(venus was amazing and saturn looked like a giant lightbulb) but this is one of the few that will still pop up on search
This one here I'm not sure how to explain away the star appearing like it's dome shaped, but I have heard the theory before, at least for the sun, and moon.
It the comment section of the videos, there was explanation on why this happened.
"Yes I have seen a star do this. Except the star isn't doing anything. The Nikon P1000 for example will also do this with any point light whether its a star or a distant airplane landing light. When shooting against a black sky with a tiny star the camera compensates for the dark by overexposing. To fix shine a bright light like on your phone into the lens to lock the exposure for white objects."
"Correct, have done this myself with 'stars' and other localized lighting sources. It's artifacting from the camera itself. Also there's some noise reduction going on as well. "