Double Cluster
Two rich star clusters side by side between Perseus and Cassiopeia, a wonderful sight in binoculars.
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What it is
- Kind of object
- Open star cluster
- Distance
- 7,460 light years
- Brightness
- Magnitude 3.7, visible to the eye from a dark site, easy in binoculars
- Size in the sky
- About half the width of the full Moon
- Constellation
- Perseus
- Catalogue
- NGC 869, NGC 884
Figures from OpenNGC, CC BY-SA 4.0; Wikipedia, “Double Cluster”, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Currie et al. 2010). All sources
Near it in the sky
- MirfakA yellow-white supergiant in Perseus, about a fist away.
- AlgolA blue-white main-sequence star in Perseus, about a hand span away.
- Andromeda GalaxyA galaxy in Andromeda, about a hand span away.
- Triangulum GalaxyA galaxy in Triangulum, about a hand span away.
- CapellaA bright star in Auriga, about a hand span away.