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Hi Chris,
I love the Rho Ophiuchi System and find it one of the most beautiful parts of the night sky and your image certainly does justice to its majestic colours against a beautiful blue sky, but as others have already mentioned, perhaps at the expense of the star colour/profile.
I still find it a wonderful image my only concern being that, and I know you've mosaiced it, is that the image didn't also include Alniyat II, the star on the other side of Antares. For me when I look up at the night sky I immediately see the location of the Rho Ophiuchi system guided by, for me, its 3 cardinal stars: Alniyat I, Antares and Alniyat II (also called Paikauhale) which form a very wide and almost symmetrical flattened V shape with yellow Antares burning bright at the centre of the V(which is what I look for when locating it).
I appreciate that as a mosaic with your focal length/camera/image scale everything would be more work to fit in, but ...... just sayin' Alniyat II's bluish colour and redish nebulosity surrounding it would add even further to your wonderful image.
Best
JA
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