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Old 17-06-2018, 09:00 AM
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That's a Schmidt ghost, the reflection of a bright star in focus off the CCD surface back to the glass of the corrector plate and then back to the CCD.
Here's a bit of reading about internal reflections.
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1086/648457.
In your case a large amount of dithering and stacking will reject these.

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