Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Camelopardalis (Cam)  ·  Contains:  NGC 1502
NGC 1502 and Kemble's Cascade, David N Kidd
NGC 1502 and Kemble's Cascade
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NGC 1502 and Kemble's Cascade

NGC 1502 and Kemble's Cascade, David N Kidd
NGC 1502 and Kemble's Cascade
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NGC 1502 and Kemble's Cascade

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NGC 1502 is the small star cluster at one end of the asterism that is know as Kemble's Cascade. It was named by Walter Scott Houston in honour of Father Lucian Kemble (1922–1999), a Franciscan friar and amateur astronomer who wrote a letter to Houston about the asterism, describing it as "a beautiful cascade of faint stars tumbling from the northwest down to the open cluster NGC 1502" that he had discovered while sweeping the sky with a pair of 7×35 binoculars!

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NGC 1502 and Kemble's Cascade, David N Kidd