On 2018-11-30 I was imaging HL CMa, which many of you know is uncomfortably close to Sirius. It’s essential to place the latter outside the field or it dazzles both CCDs and eyeballs. However, at least there is a bright (far too bright) guide star nearby. A SBIG-8 camera has a small CCD for guiding purposes and it was used with the minimum possible exposure time of 0.11 seconds. Sirius was still over exposed but, to my surprise, the Pup showed up occasionally in the autoguider window.
After taking the science data another 100 images at 0.11s were taken of Sirius. The one from the moment of best seeing appears here. The blooming from Sirius runs from top to bottom on the full frame, of which this is only a small crop. It’s fortunate that the camera was orientated at a good angle to the line joining the stars.