Object description: Located about 7100 light years away in the constellation Perseus, NGC884 and NGC869 are part of the Perseus OB1 moving group. A very striking double cluster separated by just a few hundred light years, the group is moving towards Earth at about 21km/sec and is visble to the naked eye at a dark-sky site. Note the red giants prominent in NGC884.

Telescope: Takahashi FSQ106N
Camera: StarlightXpress SXVF-M25C
Mount: Software Bisque ParamountME unguided
Filter Wheel:True Technologies SupaSlim
Filters: Hutech IDAS LPS2

Date Taken: 23OCT2006
Sky conditions: 18.23 mags/arcsecond^2, transparency 3/5, seeing 3/5, temp 12C
Image Acquisition: 16x480s 1x1 bin IDAS filter, using MaximDL 4.56

Image Processing: ImagesPlus 2.80 used for bayerization, alignment, Median combine for the RGB, and initial DDP. PSCS2 used for levels, curves, and star color enhancement. GradX and Noel Carboni's AstroTools.

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