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Dave Walden, for the count of navigation stars in the image, you wrote:
  "3 or so?"

Yes, could be! I definitely see two navigation stars in a well-known asterism related to a famous British time of day (not Greenwich Mean Time!). And a couple of others are just out-of-frame. Did you see any others clearly in the image?

I mentioned that the image "contains my favorite obsolete constellation which also contains my favorite nearby star. " And you commented "nearest in the Northern Hemisphere." From that I think you might be referring to a star that is quite close (close in the photo) to "my favorite nearby star" but if I'm right, the one you're thinking of isn't actually visible in the photo though we know where it is. Without giving it away, does that sound right?

If anyone else is interested in the identification game on this image, I'm adding another copy reduced a little in size and with modified brightness and contrast. For another clue, the ecliptic runs across the image, more or less vertically through the image.

Frank Reed

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