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Originally Posted by joelkujala
can someone tell me about a flickering star , it rises in the east , southeast at around midnight and seems to flicker or change colour this diminishes as it rises higher is it just the atmosphere creating the flickering ?
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While I can't speak to the particular object that you are asking about, most likely it is just disturbance from the atmosphere...
When stars (planets too) are closer to the horizon their "light" must pass through much more atmosphere than when they are directly overhead. The atmosphere is just chock full of things like dust and moisture that can cause the "flicker" or "twinkling" that you sometimes (often) see...
Clear Skies!