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Don't use PhotoShop default contrast enhance, it's wiping out gobs of information. Preview and use the slider bar on Image\Adjustments\"Brightness/contrast" The images are mostly black, auto adjust can't handle it and you're not interested in anything but Sirius and the unidentified object (UO.) It will also allow you to maintain a constant level of enhancement for reasonable comparisons.
You were right that the image looked to be blinking by the image but I would think you would have seen that. By the image it would look to be making small, very fast motions then sitting still. Very odd.
I'm with you on the distance too. Unless there's some weird, gravity shifting to the light path it looks to be 100+ miles out.
Disagree on using a star to hide approach, ala Red Baron. Given the motion of Earth around sun it just wouldn't work long. Same problem, smaller scale, with observer moving about a planet, continent, city, etc.
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