Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Camelopardalis (Cam)  ·  Contains:  NGC 1502
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Kemble 's Cascade, Philippe Barraud
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Kemble 's Cascade

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Kemble 's Cascade

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"... a beautiful cascade of faints stars tumbling from the northeast dowm to the open cluster NGC 1502." 
So did canadian astronomer Lucian Kemble describe his discovery of this beautiful asterism, in 1980, in Cameoleopardis, using binoculars.
There is a very accurate and poetic description of Kemble's Casacade on six pages in "Hidden Treasures", one of the essential books written by Stephen James O'Meara in the collection Deep Sky Companions. (Cambridge University Press).

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Kemble 's Cascade, Philippe Barraud