7′′  ×  7′′ fragments of the images of the PSR J1327 − 6429 field obtained in the VRI optical bands with the VLT. The band names are indicated in the top-left corners of the images. The right column panels show the respective images after subtraction of background stars, to better reveal the pulsar counterpart candidate labelled by C. The sources overlapping with the south-east occulting boundary cannot be perfectly subtracted. The images are smoothed with 3 pixel Gaussian kernel reflecting mean seeing conditions. The candidate is firmly detected in I and R bands (bottom and middle rows) and only marginally resolved in V. The colour-bar identifies the image values in 1000 counts units.