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**redbelly**

wrote:

Deviation of stars light by Sun is optical
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We consider the sun and its atmosphere as a spherical lens causing
deviation of stars light and also decrease of its speed in the lens.

What about the deviation of light by galaxies and galaxy clusters,
which is normally attributed to gravitational lensing? Would you claim
that this, too, is merely atmospheric refraction?

Mark