Mystery clusters near Cass.

[AlwaysGoodskies]

This shot is of the area above Cassiopeia, and i centered it on the two clusters in the middle. through my scope they are obviously dense clusters, but i have not been able to ID them. They sure are beautiful though! One 20 second exposure, played around with in Gimp. Oh, and a question, if i take a couple shorter exposures and stack them, will the final product be finer than just one longer exposure? I have no tracking system BTW. comments and critiques welcome!

[AlwaysGoodskies]

Oh, forgot to mention these were taken with just the stock 18-55 lens my camera came with.

[martin_h]

Could it be the Double Cluster by any chance? NGC884 ?

[AlwaysGoodskies]

Yup, I would have to say that looks like a good ID. Thanks Martin, I believe you solved the mystery. It is such a great area to look at!