White object on the left

• by EyeOnSkies

  Team,
  Check this object on the left, so so so bright...try to invert colors and tell me what you see, the difference in between common objects and bright objects, they are not brown as it is... I have tried several times painting white things on image editors, and none of them are becoming brown. that means, its not white. Seems like radiation brightness.

  Posted April 8, 2016 8:50 PM

• by JeanTate in response to EyeOnSkies's comment.

  The bright white object in the upper-left hand corner is indeed a star. It has two names (as far as I can tell), SDSS J091731.15+052000.8, and GALEXMSC J091731.34+052003.2. The latter indicates that it's a source in (one of) the GALEX catalogs, which means it is a known UV source. That is consistent with its blueish-white color, in both DECaLS and SDSS (see below)

  

  Hope this helps, and happy hunting! 😃

  Posted April 8, 2016 10:07 PM