I did that and the red circled stars were identified as being GSC2.2 I was not
aware of having enabled these because I have USNO A2 set. At least the red
blobs (which were overpowering) are now off.

Lawrence

>Re: display anomaly?
> Posted by: "Bill J Gray" pluto@... feliks314159
> Date: Tue Feb 13, 2007 5:07 am ((PST))
>
>Hi Lawrence,
>
> Dunno what those would be... I'll give my Standard Answer for
>diagnosing odd things on the screen: when you right-click on it,
>what do you get? (And you may then see a "Display" button that
>can be clicked on, and then an "off" radio button.)
>
> My guess would be some odd user-added dataset, though why it's
>getting turned on now and wasn't before is a bit of a mystery.
>
>-- Bill