Magenta stars look good at close distance, but suck far away.

[50AE]

I'm talking about this formula: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRhATzZlS_8

 

At close distance it seems very nice, but when shot in a shell and seen at maybe 200m distance, it looks like a dim pink. It's not attactive, but kind of ugly. Check the shell that burst at 0:48 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpaFomUdbsg

 

I was thinking about adding some metal or maybe increasing the copper oxychloride and decreasing the carbonate to make them look more purple. What do you think?

[Bcorso85]

Try this

Magenta Formula

 

10% Potassium Perchlorate

40% Strontium Nitrate

20% Parlon

10% Magnalium

5% Dextrin

15% Copper Oxide

5% Sulfur

5% Charcoal (Air Float)

[Jwdrummer5]

Do you have a picture or video of that comp, looks simmilar to the veline comp but with added sulfur and charcoal?

[Mumbles]

It's a rounded off or modified version of a star published by Jim Freeman.

[FREAKYDUTCHMEN]

You'll need mgal in them. Some blue's without mgal look nice too, when they are watched close, but from a further distance it's not that nice.

[Potassiumchlorate]

I use this composition from Pyroguide. Some say it's not the original composition, but it works fine for me:

 

Strontium nitrate 38

Potassium perchlorate 8

Parlon 18

Magnalium <63 µm 12

Copper carbonate 10

Charcoal, airfloat 5

Sulfur 5

Dextrin 4

[Mumbles]

That is the exact original composition from Jim Freeman. I like it. It's always been listed as a purple, but it's really more of a magenta. It's very much on the red side of purple as would be expected by the relative amounts of strontium vs. copper.

[Jwdrummer5]

Oops, you're right. Veline comp uses strontium carbonate.