measurements from Nataf’s map are the upper limits toward analyzed directions, and they should not be used straightforward for the objects located definitely closer than the Bulge. In Fig.11 we show a color-magnitude diagram (CMD) towards the direction of the OGLE-BLG-ECL-157529. We use stars located in the radius of about 2.5 arcmin around the position of the analyzed object. In the CMD we mark our target, the red clump (which has mean position: (($V-I$), $I$) = (2.33 mag, 16.11 mag) and the reddening vector. We use the OGLE Extinction Calculator[^3] that uses the Nataf’s extinction maps, and obtain limit for the color excess E($V-I$) = 1.266 mag using the nearest method and E($V-I$) = 1.248 mag using the natural neighbor method.

As previously mentioned, the Gaia parallax of 0.33065 $\pm$ 0.04436 mas implies a distance of $d$ = 3024 $\pm$ 406 pc. This means that the object is in the Galactic disk and not in the Bulge. Using the Recio-Blanco model for the Galactic disk along with the Gaia distance we obtain E($V-I$) = 0.945 mag implying a dereddened color index of $(V-I)_{0}$= 1.475 mag at the primary eclipse. In the previous step we used as input the uncorrected color 