I observed the open cluster, NGC 6231, the "False Comet Cluster" as Stephen James O'Meara calls it this weekend both at Mountain Meadows and at the Virgin, Ut observing site. I observed NGC 6231 as well as Trumpler 24 to the north with my 4" refractor with the 55mm Plossl Sat night and with the 15" Obsession on Fri night.. O'Meara states "Open cluster NGC 6231 (Caldwell 76) forms the "head" of our pseudocomet and lies only 30' north of the 4th-magnitude double star Zeta Scorpii; the comet's "tail" is the large, elongated open cluster Trumpler 24 to the north. Although these objects have seperate catalogue identities, they belong to the same group of luminous stars, the Scorpius OB1 Association. I noticed the darker the skies, the more apparent this false comet cluster appears. At Meteor Crater last week, the false comet appearance was very obvious to the naked eye,, resembling a bent Eiffel Tower. O'Meara also says "Do not stop with NGC 6231. The entire region is worth exploring. Certainly there is nothing like it in the entire sky for small-telescope users. Just north and east of the cluster, out to about 3 degrees, are three open clusters (Trumpler 24, NGC 6242, and NGC 6268), a planetary nebula (IC 4637), a diffuse nebula (IC 4628), double stars, colored stars, Milky Way patches, and a swath of dark nebulosity (Barnard 48). It's a cornucopia of celestial riches."