This open cluster was obvious in the Finder as a large glow and in the main telescope at a magnification of 41x which gave a 67' field M34 was pretty scattered with not much central condensation at all and only two stars stood out at the cluster centre. Apart from that it is a pretty mundane object.
NGC 884 - 8.75 inch reflector
This is the other open cluster that form the famous double cluster. This cluster is more scattered than its neighbour NGC 869 and is also more scattered filling the 28' field with glittering points of light. There were two bright stars wide apart though not a double system to the WNW and ENE, also a group of very distinctive stars just to the SSW of the star on the WNW side of the cluster. Dozens of fainter stars surrounded the brighter cluster members many appearing to be double and a few of the brighter stars were orange making a nice colour contrast, I counted 138 stars in the cluster.
NGC 650- 51 - the Little dumbbell nebula - 10 inch reflector + Watec
What a fantastic object for the Watec visible as a bright peanut shaped object consisting of a bright rectangular inner area with a faint and more diffuse outer nebulosity. The inner region was oriented NNE- SSW and was very patchy looking, lots of different areas of light and dark and I did notice there was a bright area at the bottom and a smaller patch at the top and I did see a very faint star just off centre in the nebula but I don't know if it is the central star. The outer nebulosity was brightest at its SSW side stretching to a magnitude 12.1 star, the other side was more diffuse but had a brighter area joining to the main nebula itself.
NGC 1491 - 12 inch reflector
This is a small emission nebula in a rather barren part of the sky but luckily I managed to find it straight away. It was only suspected without filters as a very slight haze with a magnitude 11 star on its SE border and inserting a deep sky filter it was visible but was not a very good view, the UHC filter transformed the object and also gives the best view of all the filters. With the UHC it was now a moderately large patch about 10' in diameter and looked oval in shape and its brightness appeared pretty much uniform though at times I suspected that I could see some filamentary structure. The Lumicon OIII did not produce of view as good as the UHC and the H beta filter killed it altogether.
NGC 869 - 8.75 inch reflector
This is one of the clusters that form the famous double cluster, the brightest star in the cluster is h persei of magnitude 6.6. A noticeable arc of five stars was seen just to the SE of the star and a less conspicuous arc of fainter stars was seen to the NW. This region was packed with many faint stars many forming chains and arcs and also many seem double, I counted 128 stars in the cluster which filled the 28' field.
NGC 1499 - the California nebula - 8.75 inch reflector
This was seen as a very large and very faint band of nebulosity just south of Zeta Persei. The nebula's northern side was very bright and well defined using a Lumicon H beta filter appearing like a long strip crossing the field of view, the southern part was more diffuse and therefore harder to make out and while observing I did suspect other details in the nebula using the filter.
NGC 1545 - 12 inch reflector
This was a very loose open cluster with only about 20 stars, three of the stars in the cluster including the brightest star at the centre of the cluster (magnitude 7.43) were orange which showed a nice contrast to the other fainter stars which were blue white in colour plus many doubles were seen. The cluster size was difficult to determine because it was so scattered though astronomy books listed to be 18' in diameter.
NGC 1528 - 12 inch reflector
This is a scattered open cluster with no real signs of any concentration of stars and there were only a few bright stars that stood out from the rest of the cluster and five of these were at the centre of the cluster. All stars in this cluster looked white and I did notice many were doubles, also long chains of stars were seen. The brightest star in the cluster is magnitude 8.75 and the rest of the brighter stars were also very close to this magnitude and because the cluster is so scattered it was very difficult to determine its size but I would estimated to be about 20'.
This is a tiny planetary nebula but despite the size was easy to start hop to using Unamometria 2000 and appearing non-stellar at 186x located a few minutes NW of a magnitude 10, 12 and 13 Triplett. Viewing at 186x it appeared as a tiny circular disc about 7"across and of such a high surface brightness that at one point I thought I was viewing the central star but the central star is magnitude 15.8 so I know I cannot have. Using a Lumicon OIII filter made IC351 a lot brighter but no extra detail was revealed though it blinks well with this filter and unfortunately the seeing conditions would not let me use a higher power than 186x.