The Double Cluster in Perseus, NGC869 + 884 (True Color) (Douglas Triggs)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Perseus (Per) · Contains: 10 Per · 7 Per) · 7 chi Per · 8 Per · B201 · Double cluster · Misam · NGC 869 · NGC 884 · The star 10 Per · The star 8 Per · The star Misam al Thurayya I (χ Per · chi Persei Cluster · h Persei Cluster

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The Double Cluster in Perseus, NGC869 + 884 (True Color)

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The Double Cluster in Perseus, NGC869 + 884 (True Color)

Pretty much a straight up true color capture of the Double Cluster, not a whole lot to say about it, technically.

But it's pretty object visually, and it's pretty nice in pictures, too. A pair of jewel boxes.

So many stars.

Because I'm a dork and I like six-point diffraction spikes (long before the Webb starting sending back pictures, I joked that I would buy a Delta Rho if only it had three vanes instead of four... At least that's my excuse), I made a script in PixInsight to generate diffraction spikes (though really I could do any number, I'm making it a more general script). And so I uploaded a version for that, too.

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RA (center)	02h20m39s.51
RA (top/left)	02h11m24s.72
RA (top/right)	02h27m55s.40
RA (bottom/right)	02h30m12s.66
RA (bottom/left)	02h13m00s.41

Dec (center)	+57°06′54″.2
Dec (top/left)	+56°31′51″.4
Dec (top/right)	+56°08′22″.0
Dec (bottom/right)	+57°39′18″.8
Dec (bottom/left)	+58°03′54″.8

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