Eight solar systems orbiting a black hole, what does the night sky look like?

I've been imagining an RPG universe consisting of eight solar systems orbiting around a black hole in a finite universe with an edge, and I'm wondering what the night sky would look like to beings inhabiting a world in one of those solar systems.

My thought process is that for half the year they would see the actual stars, and for the other half they might see, 'stars' in the form of other planets in their system. However, when it comes to the half of the year where they do see actual stars, I'm not really sure how many they would see.

How many phantom stars could gravitational lensing around the black hole create? Would the other stars, assuming they're roughly all identical to our sun, create any phantom stars? Thanks.

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