Kemble's Cascade in Camelopardalis

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Asterism of stars known as Kemble's Cascade, named by Walter Scott Houston for Canadian amateur astronomer and Franciscan friar Father Lucien Kemble who popularised the stellar star chain. It is in Camelopardalis. The star cluster NGC 1502 lies at the south end of the star chain. Below 1502 is a tiny vivid green dot, the planetary nebula NGC 1501.

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Keywords: -, 1501, 1502, asterism, astronomical, astronomy, camelopardalis, cascade, chain, cluster, kemble, kembles, lucien, ngc, night, sky, space, star, stars