> The object is rather securely identified with the following 2MASS >star. > >2MASS 173642.178 -234916.19 (2000.0) 9.225 8.067 7.569 It is the identification for V2220 Oph. > Furthermore, there is a NSV star (NSV09220) even closer (but >apparently different) to Toni's suspected stellar image. NSV 9200 is also referred by Terzan and Rutily, 1972, A&Ap, 16, 408, Fig. 4 as star 10. It is definetely not the Toni's suspected. There is only one information that star "A" can be a variable: somewhat bright r magnitude on USNO_A2.0 but apparently dimmer on DSS2 R image. Sincerely Yours, Hitoshi Yamaoka, Kyushu Univ., Japan yamaoka@rc.kyushu-u.ac.jp