Left panel: central 10″  ×  10″ (WFPC2, planetary camera, F555W) of NGC 3311. North is up, east is to the left. The overall symmetry can be described as a disc with a radial feature pointing to the north-north-west that seems to emerge almost exactly from the centre. There is a population of about a dozen bona fide star clusters (little bright dots) fringing the border of the dust structure. Middle panel: V − I colour map. The blue spot is bluer by 0.5 mag than the unreddened galaxy light. Right panel: H-band image of the same field as in the other panels. The blue spot is still the brightest object, but three or four other objects (globular clusters?) become visible. Their integrated light appears as the “middle peak” in the paper.