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Kemble's Cascade
Explanation: A picturesque chain of unrelated stars is visible with strong binoculars towards the constellation of Camelopardalis . Known as Kemble's Cascade , the asterism contains about 20 stars nearly in a row stretching over five times the width of a full moon . Made popular by astronomy enthusiast Lucian Kemble (1922-1999), these stars appear as a string only from our direction in the Milky Way Galaxy . The above photograph of Kemble's Cascade was made with a small telescope in New Mexico , USA . The bright object near the bottom left is the relatively compact open cluster of stars known as NGC 1502 .
| Date | December 5, 2004 |
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| Credit | Credit and Copyright: Walter MacDonald |
| Authors & editors: | Robert Nemiroff (MTU) & Jerry Bonnell (UMCP) |
| A service of: |
ASD at NASA / GSFC, NASA Science Activation & Michigan Tech. U. |