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NGC 744 — Open Cluster in Perseus

Open Cluster Good (56/100)
Magnitude 7.9m OpenCluster Perseus (Per) Visible
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1Properties

Magnitude 7.9
Angular Size 11.7′
Cl, pL, pRi, iF, st 11...13

Position & Identifiers

RA 01h 58m 29.9s
Dec +55° 28' 28.6"
Constellation Perseus (Per)
Catalog NGC 744

2How easy to spot?

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Telescope Bortle 3 Bortle 4 Bortle 5
80mm refr. Easy Easy Easy
150mm Newt. Easy Easy Easy
C8 203mm Easy Easy Easy
Easy Medium Hard Very hard Impossible

Bortle 3 = rural · 4 = outer suburbs · 5 = suburbs

Easy on Seestar S50

3Visibility

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Best season Sep – Nov (peak: Oct)

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125x TFOV: 0.4° Lim. mag: 13.6
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NGC 744 · 11.7′ diameter

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6 Classification Decoder

Nearby in the Sky

Other targets within a few degrees — pan your scope a little and keep exploring.

Visibility scores assume a 150 mm Newton at Bortle 4.

1 Per
Hard+
Eclipsing binary, period 25.9d
Variable Star mag 5.52 1.0° Perseus
Double cluster
NGC 869
Easy
Rich open cluster
Open Cluster mag 4.0 3.3° Perseus
Double cluster
NGC 884
Easy
Rich open cluster
Open Cluster mag 4.0 3.7° Perseus
M76
Little Dumbbell Nebula
Hard+
Planetary nebula — try an OIII filter
Planetary Nebula mag 10.1 4.6° Perseus
NGC 957
Easy
Open cluster
Open Cluster mag 7.6 5.2° Perseus
NGC 659
Easy
Open cluster
Open Cluster mag 7.9 5.5° Cassiopeia
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