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Polarissima Australis - neighbours close to it?
Hi all,
After three years, I finally got to sketch this 14th magnitude faint fuzzy, Polarissima Australis, NGC 2573, the closest catalogued object to the South Celestial Pole. I've got a write-up of this sketch in the DSO sketching sticky.
But this thread is not about Polarissima Australis. It is about a curious thing I noticed through the eyepiece with my 17.5" dob. While observing NGC 2573, I noticed two other even fainter faint fuzzies very close to PA. Not just my own observation, but other people at Astrofest also noticed these two faint ghosts. The one to the left of PA being a little brighter than the one on the right, and both being really faint - suck-your-eyeballs-out faint!
Thing is, I don't have any atlases or the such to give me an idea of what they are.
I've attached an image of my sketch where these two puffs can be seen just above and on either side of PA.
Anyone have any clue as to what these two items could be please?
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