Kemble's Cascade (Kemble 1) and NGC 1502 (Michael Feigenbaum)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Camelopardalis (Cam) · Contains: NGC 1502

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Kemble's Cascade (Kemble 1) and NGC 1502

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Kemble's Cascade (Kemble 1) and NGC 1502

Here we have a try at Kemble's Cascade (Kemble 1) which is an asterism located in Camelopardalis. This one, much like the Double Cluster is a feast for the eyes visually and I wanted to try to capture that experience with this image.

This is a first-light with an Askar 72mm Petzval-like refractor. I have been looking for a nice small refractor for a while, particularly a fast and fairly wide field instrument for the wide field and grab-and-go type of applications. I had worked a little bit with an Apertura 60mm FPL-53 doublet but either that particular instrument has some problems or simply is not good enough to do what we do with these. I think it it likely the former.

In any case, using this was a pleasure and the data I was able to capture seems to be pretty good considering that we had the jet stream parked over Arizona for a while resulting in clear skies but poor seeing. So it seemed that doing an image like this was the appropriate kind of object with these conditions. I suspected that there might be a little bit of Hii in this area of the sky so I did a bit of Ha integration to see. I think I caught a little bit of it so probably not a waste of time.

I hope you like this one, comments/criticism always welcome and Clear Skies!

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RA (center)	03h57m02s.43
RA (top/left)	04h11m13s.99
RA (top/right)	03h40m20s.17
RA (bottom/right)	03h44m08s.39
RA (bottom/left)	04h12m40s.14

Dec (center)	+62°55′35″.2
Dec (top/left)	+64°17′49″.8
Dec (top/right)	+63°51′14″.6
Dec (bottom/right)	+61°28′18″.2
Dec (bottom/left)	+61°52′58″.9

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