I stumbled upon this pretty open cluster by just slewing my ETX70 into a dark area of the sky toward the north. The 'identify' function said it was NGC884, part of the double cluster. At first it looked like two or three open clusters with a 'tail' of about 6 or 7 stars. The fuzzy on the left looked like a circle of dim stars. Very nice with my 27mm ep. The other fuzzy is NGC869. Stock 2 is nearby but I didn't look for it as I was unaware until I saw it in CdC after shutting down for the night.
M31 was nice and a bit larger with no moon but still pretty dim in the ETX. Uranus and Jupiter had all slipped too far west by the time I had the scope setup so I missed the planets tonight. M45 was high and bright, even with no scope. Lots of stars were visible including all of Casseopia's 'W'. Not a bad night at all. Nice 69 F, clear, moonless evening in south Texas.
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