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Photographer:
massimo.difusco
Location of Photo:
Ferrara (Italy)
Date/Time of photo:
30/07/2024 00:00
Equipment:
Konus 200/1000 @950mm, Player One Poseidon-C camera @-5 °C, Sky-Watcher Eq6r Pro mount, Optolong L-Quad Enhance filter
Description:
While waiting to complete a much more challenging and ambitious project on this target, I made my usual summer visit to one of my favorite objects: the Perseus Double Cluster. It's stronger than me, every time I get lost in this carpet of stars as if I were looking at it for the first time. The Double Cluster (also known as Caldwell 14) consists of the open clusters NGC 869 and NGC 884 (often designated h Persei and χ Persei, respectively), which are close together in the constellation Perseus. Both visible with the naked eye, NGC 869 and NGC 884 lie at a distance of about 7500 light years in the Perseus Arm of the Milky Way.
