[Stevec35 (Steve)]

Originally Posted by Logieberra

Way to go Steve, representing the ol' ACT on IOTW!

Thanks Logan

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

I second that and poroxy for Marcus Davies too

Mike

Thanks Mike

Originally Posted by TheDecepticon

Congrats on your IOTW.

Thanks Graham

Originally Posted by iceman

I really like this Steve! One of your best I think.
No need to apologise for super saturated colours - I love it too

This is now IOTW.

Thanks Mike. Rob Gendler said he would turn the saturation down just a tad but it's all a matter of taste. It's funny that this image started out as a test as I'm still having some flex problems with the FSQ.

Originally Posted by alpal

It is a beautiful photo - well done.


As a minor point:
What about the blue halos around some stars?
Could that have been removed by better focusing of the blue filter?
I wouldn't expect halos from an FSQ using Astrodon filters.
Maybe the stars were just so bright that you were stuck with it?

Thanks. I thought I checked focus for every colour. It's possible that the brightness of the stars did it. I did try and minimize the halos but the effect looked a bit unnatural. In any case I think the blue halos emphasize the fact that these are hot blue white stars.

Originally Posted by madbadgalaxyman

If you search in Google books , within the book "Sky Vistas: Astronomy for Binoculars and Richest-Field telescopes" by Crossen and Rhemann, you can find a couple of pages of detailed info about NGC 6231 and its associated broader concentration of stars known as Scorpius OB1.
I might abstract some of this info for IIS forum.

The total luminosity of NGC 6231 is comparable to that of Omega Centauri (!!), and the overall concentration of stars (cluster plus association) is a major tracer of the nearby spiral arm, that we see edge-on ; the arm runs from Sagittarius to Carina.
Oddly, this spiral arm is currently rather quiescent between Norma and Crux, with only a few major nebular complexes seen in this part of the Milky way, and these few nebulae are not very bright; there are not a lot of clusters of hot young stars that cause the interstellar medium to glow, in this part of the Milky Way.

You are certainly a mine of information Robert.