"Richard Dixon" wrote in message
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I realise that astronomy isn't meteorology - but nonetheless - did anyone
else see the star (?) flickering red and green as well as your
common-or-garden white last night towards the south-western sky?
Fascinating. At first I thought it was a plane but that realised it wasn't
moving.

Richard

It was probably Sirius. This is the brightest star in the sky, as opposed
to planet, and is in the SW sky these evenings. It does appear to flash red
and green - one book I read said it "flashes with all the colours of the
rainbow" but it's only red and green I seem to see.

Ian Bingham,
Inchmarlo, Aberdeenshire.