Hello there, Studying the double cluster NGC 884/869 while comparing to my recently developed picture on conventional negative-film, I found in the environment (north of OCL 365 and south of OCL 362/NGC 957) the following star: ASCC 170585. When I zoom out so that I see the double cluster and the two smaller OCL-clusters mentioned above, the bright star disappears and becomes a normal star like all the others in the neighbourhood. So I zoomed in and found that there is a second star displayed next to ASCC 170585 (visual mag 11.05) : 1425-03538941 with red-mag and blue-mag 0.00, color index and field number 0.00 etc etc. This star disappears when I deactivate the USNO-A-catalog activated on Stars2 under catalog settings.
This is only one strange star appearance! The following star appears in the middle of NGC 1266/PGC 12131: QSO NGC 1266 (visual mag: 0.00, Mabs: 0.00, U-B: 0.00 etc etc). Also in the constellation Leo: QSO RXS J10292+2729 on position Date: RA 10h 29m 47.01s DEC +27° 26' 48.7" . I guess the following star in the southern hemisphere is also such an "artificial" star: QSO Q 2138-4432 (position Date: RA 21h 42m 33.49s DEC -44° 15' 46.8"). Sometimes I also found a strange very bright star opposite of the sun on the ecliptic. What's going on here and which catalog might be responsible for this "appearances"? Thanks very much and greetings Lucius
