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Left: amateur image, right: Hubble image of the pair of open clusters Caldwell 14.

Caldwell 14: Amateur Image vs. Hubble Image

Caldwell 14 (C14), also called the Double Cluster, is some 7,500 light-years away. These two bright open star clusters appear side by side in the northern sky, about halfway between the constellations Perseus and Cassiopeia. The left image was taken with an 8-inch Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope using a 0.63x focal reducer and a DSLR Camera. The right image was taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope.

Image Credit: Amateur Image: Photographed by and used with permission of K. Hartnett; Hubble Image: NASA, ESA, and S. Casertano (Space Telescope Science Institute); Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America)
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