Wall to wall stars

[sjastro]

The concentrated regions are open clusters in the LMC.
The centered cluster is NGC 2057.

RGB image L synthetic luminance R 50m, G 50m, B 50m ST-X10ME BRC-250.

http://users.westconnect.com.au/~sjastro/ngc2057c.html

Clear skies

Steven

[DavidU]

Yes there are a few stars there Steve:eyepop:
Excellent image.

[duncan]

WHOA!!!!! Fantastic image. Wonder if anyone wants to count 'em all,LOL:lol::thumbsup:
Cheers,
Duncan

[Bassnut]

Gaud, thats a too-many-stars head spin, can you do do a starless on that?.

Lots of depth with not a lot of exposure time right there, the ST10 and BRC250 is a sweet combo, nice work.

[mill]

Plenty of stars there Steven :)
And yes i counted them : there are 2,842,904 stars, don't believe me? count them :P

[multiweb]

Wow! That's overwhelming. Hard to find a point of reference. :thumbsup:

[duncan]

lol!!!

[Bolts_Tweed]

I believe you Martin - can you just provide a list of names now too?

Nice image Steven

Mark

[strongmanmike]

Cool shot Steve! :thumbsup:

Not only wall to wall stars but they are all in another galaxy too :eyepop:

[Garyh]

Stars, what stars all I see are billions of other suns far away!
Nice and different.

[sjastro]

Thanks for the comments.

Looking at the image gives me a headache.:)
Perhaps a starless version is the way to go.:)

Clear skies

Steven

[iceman]

That's beautiful. Excellent work!

[Tom Davis]

Pretty!!

Tom

[sjastro]

Thanks Mike and Tom.

Regards

Steven

[bloodhound31]

I know someone who knows them each by name....but I can't say that here...;)

[CoolhandJo]

..and every hair on your head too!:thumbsup:

BTW really really awe inspiring image Steven. Seems many members here are shooting some great star clusters and star fields lately!

[AlexN]

They are not stars... he's posted a 300s dark frame with the cooling turned off :P haha! :)

In all seriousness...

Niiiiice!! :)

A real eye opener... You know, you hear it a lot, that there is more stars in the universe than there is grains of sand on earth... Never before have I seen an image that makes you say "yep... I would agree with that!"

Great variation in star colour in there too..

[Remus]

incredible! top job.

[Octane]

I like that orange star.

Sublime, Steven.

The area around the Southern Pleiades is also like this, but, has a higher concentration of red stars.

H

[sjastro]

Once again thanks for the feedback.

Much appreciated.

Steven