Deep-sky object
Double Cluster
Double Cluster is a pair of open clusters somewhere between 7 460 and 7 640 light-years away, in Perseus, about 130 light-years across.
Two young star clusters side by side in binoculars, born together about 13 million years ago.
See it live
It is on the live 3D map, where it really is.
Key facts
- Type
- pair of open clusters
- Constellation
- Perseus
- Distance
- 7 460 to 7 640 light-years
- Size
- about 130 light-years across
- Brightness from Earth
- magnitude 3.7
- Catalogue
- NGC 869 and NGC 884
See it from here
Bright enough to see with your own eyes from a dark place.
How the map draws it
Drawn as a soft glow in the manner of its kind at its measured distance, as wide as it measures; the pattern in it is illustrative and its true shape is not drawn — the kind of thing, not this exact one.