Zoomed-in views of a 9′×7′ region centred on Minni 48 obtained with VVV (top panel), 2MASS (middle panel), and DECaPS (bottom panel) This figure is oriented along equatorial coordinates, with east to the left and north to the top (see also Fig. 3). The white arrows point to the RR Lyrae stars and the yellow arrow to the Type 2 Cepheid. The saturated star near the centre is the bright source IRAS 17302-2800, with K_s = 3.33 and (J − K_s) = 1.81 mag.