Interesting videos indicating some stars might not be what we think they are

[WhiteLove]

I've come across some interesting videos captured by people with the Nikon Coolpix P900 that indicate stars are not necessarily spheres of light, but can be a complex dynamic geometric structure of light/colors it appears. I have just started looking into this, I'm not sure what all of this means, but it is interesting and if you have information to add to this, please do so in this thread.

10A-Star Raw Footage Nikon P900
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9vxt8ObQKvvOWcxU1RSSFNRaVk/view

Stars are not stars / Nikon Coolpix P900 / 2X slow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vhanw7EyH38

[Bill Ryan]

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:facepalm:

Atmospheric distortion. Period. (The person who took this video has clearly never seen a mirage)

[Sunny-side-up]

There has been talk of this before, about Stars not all the same, as hinted at here.

Some stars do twinkle very differently to the majority.

[dynamo]

that's sirius, the dog star.
actually a binary star system.
some now think there may be a third star.
anyway, yes, as Bill stated, the colours are changing because of turbulence in our atmosphere.

[Aurelius]

... in time to come, we will find out that at least one third of all the stars we see in the sky are NOT real stars, they are either a reflection of a real star or something else entirely.

[Sunny-side-up]

that's sirius, the dog star.
actually a binary star system.
some now think there may be a third star.
anyway, yes, as Bill stated, the colours are changing because of turbulence in our atmosphere.

Yes is true,
there is atmospheric turbulence, heat shimmer and changing densities through our atmosphere but,
many of the stars do not twinkle and or change colour so activley. The ones that do are consistent and so not directly do to atmospheric-turbulences.
If atmospheric-turbulences was the reason most stars would be changing colours vividly, the night sky would be a fairground light show.
Some stars or what ever they are, look very different to the majority.
Maybe something between the particular stars and us are causing these stars to look so active?

[lake]

10A-Star Raw Footage Nikon P900
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9vxt8ObQKvvOWcxU1RSSFNRaVk/view


Well I viewed this video and my first thought was "I've seen that before!"
So I took a still from the vid at no particular point, just stopped it randomly (probably could have got a much clearer image), ending up with this:

http://normalisforaverage.com/strange/hex.jpg

Which looks rather akin to this from nasa:

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/cassini/20131204/pia17652-640.gif

think I'm missing something but hey it was only a thought or maybe nasa are also showing atmospheric distortions....for some reason?