V520 Persei is a blue supergiant member of NGC 869, one of the Perseus Double Cluster open clusters. It is an irregular variable star. V520 Persei is the brightest member of the Double Cluster at magnitude 6.55. Two brighter stars in the same field are foreground objects. 7 Persei, sometimes considered to be the actual star χ Persei, is a yellow giant star, and HD 14443 is a white supergiant. Several other early B supergiants in NGC 869 are the most luminous members of the cluster, while NGC 884 contains several red supergiants.