1034 blinding stars present in Euclid’s RoI. There are 1003 stars over the RoI that have Y, or J, or H < 4 AB mag (in red), and 31 stars with i < 4 AB mag and all three bands Y, J, H > 4 AB mag (in blue). The size of the dots scales down with the magnitude from −2 to +4. Those nearby bright stars are evenly distributed over the RoI, uncorrelated with the Galactic latitude. The three EDFs (see Sect. 6.2), free of blinding stars, are shown in green.