Jewel Box and BetaCrux

[jsmoraes]

GSO 305 mm - barlow ED 1.5x - Cannon 350D

Jewel Box - 1 m 30 s - ISO 800
Beta Crux - single frame - 30 s - ISO 800

[jsmoraes]

And returning back to Jewel Box

GSO 305 mm - barlow ED 2x - Canon Rebel XT - iso 800 e 1600 - 16 m 29 s - 49 frames

[rogerg]

Nice round stars and some good star colour retained :thumbsup: Your first post, the more blue image, reminds me of my first shots of NGC 4755 taken through my old 4.5" newtonian with film and Pentax SP1000 :)

[jsmoraes]

Thanks for stopping by, rogerg.
Not bad, because I should be at the same stage of learning that you were at that time. In astrophotography I have only 5 months old, and median quality equipment

[TanjaC]

Nicely done Jorge,
Always nice to see progression. Did u add the diffraction spikes to your stars post-editing or while u were imaging them?

[naskies]

I like the repro!

[jsmoraes]

Thank Dave and Tanja.
Yeah, I am in progress with focus, color and digital processing. And I am happy and proud for it.
The last photo is a new one. Not a repro.
All spikes are natural, no artificial addition.
This forum has pushing me up. With many information, links and turorials.
Thank all you for.

[naskies]

Oops, I meant your stacked version... :)

[alpal]

Very nice jewel box - thanks for posting it.

[LightningNZ]

Nice images Jorge. The stacked version is very nice though the red colour in the original looks more correct - to the eye anyway. I love the Jewel box. Such a pretty shape and collection of colours.

Thanks for posting,
Cam