Oh... I was able to track down the originator of that Polaris image that Clare was going on about. Freestore was also trying to use it to support Nancy. The guy doesn't know if he still has the original, but I asked for a copy if he can find it. One question is cleared up by this comment of his, however:

"The red is light leakage from the LED light metering system."

That makes a lot of sense. We knew there wasn't supposed to be any bright nebulae in that area so it had to be some foreign object or light. The position of polaris with respect to earth's rotational axis is right where it should be in that image though (even when compared against an image freestore was touting as showing it had changed), so it proves the debunkers were right again!
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