That is really good reasoning, Bitworm. Gosh, that was like a revelation reading that. It never even occured to me.Posted by bitworm (here)
It's not the binoculars alone, it's the combination of the binoculars and the camera lens that's causing the effect. The blue object is a reflection from the original source, through the binoculars, to the lens of the camera and back onto the glass on the eyepiece side of the binoculars. The camera is recording the reflection that is on the eyepiece side of the binoculars.
So - that would make it a definite hoax then, right? Because he would have to know.