One degree square field of view WISE 3.6 μm (red), 2MASS Ks, and H (green and blue) image composite of S284, centered on Dolidze 25 and with the target of this study, sh284-EC1 to the east-southeast. A 10 pc scale bar is shown for a distance of 4.5kpc. sh284-EC1 is located 20pc to the east–southeast and the JWST/NIRCam pointing is overlaid as the green boxes with the A module to the north. The fields in Ashraf et al. (2026) and Patra et al. (2024) are shown as the magenta rectangle and the cyan circles, respectively.