On Thu, 2 Mar 2006 15:06:06 +0000 (UTC), "Jo"
wrote:

In ,
Pete Lawrence typed:
Some shots from the evening of March 1st 2006

Earthshine
http://www.digitalsky.org.uk/2006-03-01/earthshine.html


Excellent, as usual.

In the earthshine shot there is something close to the moon at about the
5.00 o'clock position. Is it a star, artifact or what ?

Hi Jo, I've just looked it up and it would appear to be TYC2-1641-1
mag. +6.2. The one a bit further out is TYC2-1154-1, mag +7.0.
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