Star Recipes

Star Ingredients

Stars are made in a Star Rack.

• All stars need a binder:
  • Beeswax - for Comet and Ball-type stars, which diffuse in 'pulses'.
  • Cactus Sap - for Comet, Ball, and Line-type stars, all of which diffuse in either pulses or as a straight line.
  • Clay - for 'popper' stars, which diffuse all in one burst at the end of their fire.
  • Tar - for 'sparkler' stars, which diffuse in sparks throughout their runs.
• All stars need some quantity of Sulfur and Charcoal.
• All stars need some variety of Metal Salts.
• Some stars also need Aluminum Powder.

Available Recipes

For this table, please use the cost of producing a batch of TEN (10) Stars

Star Name	Star Type	Region	Binder Type	Binder Amt	Sulfur	Charcoal	Salt Type	Salt Amt	Al Powder
Squat Canary	Pulsing	Common	Cactus Sap	13	3	15	Aluminum	9	0
Flying Frog	Pulsing	Common	Cactus Sap	15	5	10	Zinc	6	0
Silver Trail	Trail	Shabbat Ab	Cactus Sap	14	4	48	Silver	29	0

For Star Type, please use one of the following:

• Pulsing - these have a strong glow on the first star, and usually leave a simple trail. There is considerable variability in the size of the star, and the length of the trail. The basic frog and canary designs are this type.
• Cone (comets) - Have a strong glow at the front, and diffuse into a short 'cone' shape.
• Bomb (poppers) - These are often hard to see, since they fly their lifetime unignited, and then explode at the end. Single poppers are useful as near-invisible platforms for delivering other stars, while showers of many poppers can be an impressive finale.
• Trail ("Thin Red Line") - Long thin trails of light, often used for spirals and geometric shapes.
• Sparkler - These are typically crowd favorites. They leave a shower of sparks as a trail, usually but not always in the same color as the head of the star.

See Also

• Test of Pyrotechnics
• Pyrotechnics Guides
• Portable Star Lab