By Justin Laughlin | 2019-09-01
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On 09/04/2019 03:40 am by Dr Ski | Valencia Observatory
The Double Cluster in Perseus is #4 on my Favorite Binocular Targets list.
Surprisingly, Charles Messier did not include this on his list of things that might be mistaken for comets.
But they do have NGC classifications:
884 and 869. I forgot which is which.
This is merely a snapshot thru the eyepiece (I'm not an Astrophotographer) but it is a good representation of what you can expect to see thru binoculars. And it's easy to find. If you have a dark sky, you can see it with the naked eye. You might even mistake it for a comet.
Canon G9X, 11 X 70 Binoculars
Eyepiece projection
3.2s, ISO3200