Last night I was observing M66 from Cherry Springs (21.80 mpsas by SQM-L) with my 16" and noticed a starlike object superimposed on the prominent star cloud just off the NW end of the bar. It was seen best at 300x with ZAOII-6, although I had to wait for moments of stabilization, because seeing was generally bad. I recorded it on the sketch and looking at some amateur photos I had with me began to suspect that it might not be a superimposed star, but could not be certain because of their resolution. In the ESO image of M66 on Wikipedia there is a clear candidate and it does not look stellar or superimposed. What do you think? Have you seen it? Is this a Milky Way star? Is this a known object in M66? I could not find anything on it in the literature or databases, but maybe I just don't know how to look.
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Left, sketch. Right, ESO Wikipedia. The frame of the photo is indicated on the sketch. North up, west right in both (approximately).