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Kemble’s Cascade

Starting from ? Persei and scanning east with binoculars into Camelopardalis you will find a remarkably straight line of evenly matched stars running roughly north-south and ending at a small open cluster, NGC 1502. This is an asterism, or collection of unrelated stars, numbering about 20 and stretching a distance of about 5 moon widths in the sky.

ZenithStar 70 with WO Field Flattener III
Canon 350D @ ISO 800
6 x 2 minute exposures

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