I just wrapped up a good night!

[DemosL]

I was out for about 2 hours. I enjoyed looking along the Milky Way. I also saw M31 and barely saw M33. A little later, I saw some nebulosity west (by maybe 10 deg) of Cassiopeia. I'm not sure what I saw. Then I saw the Perseus Double Cluster, which usually looks fantastic at about 45x in a scope. It looked pretty good in the bins. Then I looked at the Pleiades. That was fantastic. I've never seen it in the 15 x 70 bins. Looked like diamonds on black velvet. The stars in Perseus the point towards Cassiopeia were also fantastic. I saw a few open clusters in Cassiopeia.

[Pig]

Demos,

I find the area of the night sky around Cassiopeia extremely dazzling, there are so many clusters and different coloured stars to ponder over.  A good pair of bins or a smaller aperture refractor with a wide field of view eyepiece sure do bring out the best in the objects you have mentioned. The double cluster and the Pleiades are especially good targets

[wimvb]

I agree, the region between Cassiopeia and Taurus makes for very rewarding observations. The past month or so, I've visited this patch of the sky several times, using just a pair of binoculars.

Wim

[laudropb]

Nice report. This is a very interesting area to view at this time of the year.