A question on seeing. The other night I waited till the wee small hours to view mars. The best way I can describe the image is that of a (tight) red sparkler, almost as though it was on fire. A couple of nights later I noticed the same thing when viewing alphacrux but of course the effect was that of a white sparkler. The image was steady and there was no "movement" apparent from air turbulence. Is this the result of poor seeing, abberation in the EP, atmospheric conditions, or some optical trait of the eye. The magnification was about 133x and the transparency very good with most of the Milky way visible to the naked eye.
