Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Camelopardalis (Cam)  ·  Contains:  NGC 1502
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Kemble1 Cascade, NGC1502, Rolf Dietrich
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Kemble1 Cascade, NGC1502

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Kemble1 Cascade, NGC1502

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Testshots with 35x120s soft focus filter Cokin P820 and

45x240s shots with triband filter IDAS NB1.

The soft focus effect was too strong, so i only used 25% of the Cokin shots.

Kembles Cascade is an asterism that lies in the constellation Camelopardalis. It is an apparent line of more than 20 colored stars from the fifth to the tenth magnitude over a distance of about five Earth's moon diameters. The open star cluster NGC 1502 is at one end of the chain.

The formation was named by Walter Scott Houston after the Franciscan and amateur astronomer Lucian J. Kemble (1922–1999). [1] Kemble wrote a letter to Houston describing the formation as a wonderful cascade of dark stars from the northwest down to NGC 1502, which he discovered while observing the sky with his 7x35 binoculars.

Kemble wrote a letter to Houston describing the formation as a wonderful cascade of dark stars from the northwest down to NGC 1502, which he discovered while observing the sky with his 7x35 binoculars.

[Wikipedia)

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Kemble1 Cascade, NGC1502, Rolf Dietrich