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The Perseus Double Cluster is well placed

Dominic Ford, Editor
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Objects: Caldwell 14
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The Perseus Double Cluster (NGC 869 and NGC 884; combined mag 4.3) will be well placed in the evening sky in coming weeks. On 27 October it will reach its highest point in the sky at around midnight local time, and on subsequent evenings it will culminate four minutes earlier each day.

From Fairfield , it is visible all night. It will become visible at around 19:01 (EDT), 35° above your north-eastern horizon, as dusk fades to darkness. It will be lost to dawn twilight at around 06:09, 38° above your north-western horizon.

At a declination of 57°08'N, it is easiest to see from the northern hemisphere but cannot be seen from latitudes much south of 12°S.

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At magnitude 4.3, Caldwell 14 is tricky to make out with the naked eye except from a dark site, but is visible through a pair of binoculars or small telescope.

The position of Caldwell 14 is as follows:

Object Right Ascension Declination Constellation Magnitude Angular Size
Caldwell 14 02h20m00s 57°08'N Perseus 4.3 0'00"

The coordinates above are given in J2000.0.

The sky on 27 Oct 2019

The sky on 27 October 2019
Sunrise
07:15
Sunset
17:55
Twilight ends
19:28
Twilight begins
05:42

29-day old moon
Waxing Crescent

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29 days old

Planets
Rise Culm. Set
Mercury 09:23 14:02 18:42
Venus 08:58 13:53 18:47
Moon 06:20 12:17 18:04
Mars 05:41 11:26 17:11
Jupiter 11:19 15:55 20:32
Saturn 12:54 17:33 22:12
All times shown in EDT.

Source

The circumstances of this event were computed using the DE430 planetary ephemeris published by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).

This event was automatically generated by searching the ephemeris for planetary alignments which are of interest to amateur astronomers, and the text above was generated based on an estimate of your location.

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© Digitised Sky Survey (DSS); Second Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (POSS-II)

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41.14°N
73.26°W
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