Stuart Mulligan wrote:

lol, reminds me of when I showed Mars to a freind and she refocussed. "Oooh,
it looks like a doughnut"!

Well, it reminds ME of the time my son, then maybe 4 years old,
looked through the binoculars and exclaimed,

"IT'S THE REAL MOON IN SPACE!!!!!!!!!!!"

The peculiar thing was that we lived in a townhouse behind a
supermarket, and he was looking straight into an impenetrable
bright gray late evening suburban summer haze. It was actually
a few years after that that I figured out what he was seeing.
He was too young to remember anything about it, so I just have
to settle for believing my theory, which is pretty good, I think.

I feel sure that what he was looking at was the binocular field
of view itself, which of course is large, round, and bright
( not like in the movies. ) He was in the thrall of Star Wars
at the time, and it appeared to him just like those screen-filling
shots of the Death Star or this or that planet. A cheap thrill for sure.

Lew Mammel, Jr.