when you use a telescope or binoculars to see the star what do you see?

[England_Rules]

Do you see like a round object, colourful and looks like there is electricity going around the star.

[ZeroByte]

It's still just a point of light, even in very large telescopes. Betelgeuse is one of the few stars that's huge enough and near enough to almost be resolvable as a disc.

They are brighter in scopes and binoculars, though.

[Geoff G]

A point of light. Sounds like you have cheap binoculars!

[Prince]

a little star is still a little star. the only difference is you can see more stars, unless you are looking to a planet, in a telescope you may see a disc and some structure.

[Carlos_dfc]

Yep - a point of light.
The better the optics, the sharper and 'tighter' that point will be.

Spikes etc, dancing around is caused by one of 3 things.
It can be just plain poor optics....
In a large reflector telescope it can be caused by currents of air moving around inside the tube
Or if you observe a star that is low n the sky, it can be caused by the light from the star passing through turbulent air (atmosphere)
Many people don't realise, but when you look at an object low above the horizon, the light is passing through about 6 times as much atmosphere, as when you look straight up.