Astroblog: The Jewel Box

Thursday, April 30, 2009

The Jewel Box

The Jewel Box is one of my favourite open clusters. Lying close to Beta Crucis in the Southern Cross, it it was a great target when I was scanning the skies with my dad's binoculars in my younger days. It still is a great target for my array of telescopes, but my Webcam systems can't take images of this delightful cluster

I took this image using GRAS-13 from Global Rent-a-Scope. Nice.

Labels: astrophotography

# posted by Ian Musgrave @ 6:40 am

Comments:

Oooh, very nice, I'm gonna have to get me one of those. Lots of stars. nice balance in this image. regards, Cometal

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Anonymous : 6:52 pm

Oh yeah, the Jewel Box is a classic (Your eta Carina shot is still better though). I'd love to see what you make of the Jewel Box.

In the meantime, I still haven't go to image any comets. sigh

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