Jewel Box and Becrux

[troypiggo (Troy)]

Here's NGC4755 Jewel Box cluster and Becrux. A pretty and colourful bunch of stars.

Larger image here

[skysurfer]

Nice picture.
The only comment is that the white balance is rather blue: Becrux looks like a blue LED.

[Kunama]

Very nice Troy.

(at an effective temperature of 27000K it is a blue star )

[Atmos (Colin)]

A lot of stars in that field, nice composition

[multiweb (Marc)]

Looks great Troy. Shot that fov not so long ago.

[Ross G]

A very nice photo Troy.

Nice colours and I love the composition.

What camera and lens did you use?

Ross.

[troypiggo (Troy)]

Originally Posted by skysurfer

Nice picture.
The only comment is that the white balance is rather blue: Becrux looks like a blue LED.

I understand what you mean. There is little processing on this - I did a background neutralisation and white balance, then stretched. Nothing was done selectively or on any particular channel to modify that blue. So I think the white balance is ok, it's just that bright star.

I recall Rogelio Bernal Andreo saying once that he gets similar comments on his brighter blue stars, and he put it down to a property of the filters or something. If I recall correctly, he uses the same Astrodons as I do.

I was a bit torn while processing. I know that stars are supposed to be pastel sort of colours, and all but one star in this image are (to my eyes). On the other hand, I like the effect that came out, the bright beacon versus the cluster. Kind of balances in my mind.

Originally Posted by Kunama

Very nice Troy.

(at an effective temperature of 27000K it is a blue star )

Cheers mate

Originally Posted by Atmos

A lot of stars in that field, nice composition

Originally Posted by multiweb

Looks great Troy. Shot that fov not so long ago.

Just had a quick look - from SPSP? I'll have to go back and look at your collection there in more detail

Originally Posted by Ross G

A very nice photo Troy.

Nice colours and I love the composition.

What camera and lens did you use?

Ross.

Thanks mate. Camera is my trusty old QSI583ws, scope was TMB92SS with Orion Flattener.

[Andy01 (Andy)]

A beautiful image, bit of modern art really - would live to see that printed up big- maybe about 2m across in an art gallery.
The infiniteness of space is on show here and imo the colours are terrific

[RickS (Rick)]

Good one, Troy! I'd run a mile to avoid including a star like that in my FOV but you made it work for you

[troypiggo (Troy)]

Originally Posted by Andy01

A beautiful image, bit of modern art really - would live to see that printed up big- maybe about 2m across in an art gallery.
The infiniteness of space is on show here and imo the colours are terrific

Thank you for your kind words, mate. Was surprised at how it turned out, and can't same I'm not happy with the result.

Originally Posted by RickS

Good one, Troy! I'd run a mile to avoid including a star like that in my FOV but you made it work for you

Cheers mate. Still want to experiment and try your recommendation from the PI forum re the cores.

[Ryderscope (Rodney)]

A very nice wide field view Troy