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Last night, I went outside, and saw a star (Star?) that was WAY bigger than normal, with Binocs I could detect a shape. <br />I watched it for one hour. It stayed fixed with the other stars, i.e. it moved across the sky with them exactly so. (I know enough lay-man astronomy to know it wasn't any of the planets, I know them by sight and see them all the time when I am out fishing, so it wasn't one of them )<br /><br />It was rainbow coloured. It had rays shooting from it for all the world like the depiction of the star of Bethlehem in a book. <br /><br />It would suddenly grow in brightness, when I saw it initially it was as bright as Jupiter ever gets, brighter I am thinking. When it waxed in brightness, the rays coming out like the points of a compass, would flash like I don't know what. I showed two housemates and a neighbour and none of us had ever seen anything like it before. <br /><br />It was literally all the colours of the rainbow. In the field of the binocs it lost the rays, but instead became almost a discernable shape, which I guessed at being an oval. And first one side of the oval would be florensent green while the top was red and another side sickly yellow, then before you could be sure the colours were exactly so, they would shift like oil-on-water colours shift. <br /><br />OK. It was at 11 pm, in Auckland. The object was in the sky about 55 degrees from the horizon. It was in the east near where the sun comes over the hill, maybe it was about my hands width at arms length south of the track that the planets are following at this time of the year. <br />This is not where Geosynchronous satellites that I have had pointed out to me, sit. As far as I could see, it couldn't be a sat sitting there. <br /><br />Was it anything anyone else recognises? <br /><br />What could that have been?. I guess it might have been a satellite after all because, after all, why wouldn't something else turning up there, be reported here already in excitement.<br /><br />Now, I HAD been d