Kemble's Cascade

Kemble's Cascade is an asterism, which is located in the constellation Camelopardalis. There is an apparent line of more than 20 colored stars from the fifth to the tenth magnitude over a distance of about five Erdmonddurchmessern. The open cluster NGC 1502 is located at one end of the chain.

The formation was discovered by Walter Scott Houston in memory of Father Lucian J. Kemble, amateur astronomers. He wrote a letter to Walter in which he described the formation as a wonderful cascade of dark stars from the northwest down to NGC 1502, which he discovered as he watched the sky with his binoculars 7x35.

Walter at the time was so impressed that he wrote an article about the asterism, which appeared in his column Deep Sky Wonders in the magazine Sky & Telescope in 1980. He called it in the original English Kemble 's Cascade.

• Asterism