Kembles cascade
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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). Kemble wrote a letter to Houston, where he as the formation down a wonderful cascade of dark stars from northwest to NGC 1502 , described that he discovered when he the sky with his binoculars watched 7x35.
Houston was so impressed at the time that he wrote an article on asterism that appeared in his Deep Sky Wonders column in Sky & Telescope magazine in 1980. The article contained a drawing of asterism made by Lucien Kemble. Houston called him there in the original English Kemble's Cascade . Asterism was also entered under this name in the Millennium Star Atlas.
Trivia
Kemble's Cascade served in the 1980s as a template for a computer game , which was reissued in 2014 as a board game adaptation under the name "The Battle at Kemble's Cascade" .
Web links
- Kemble's Cascade Astronomy Picture of the Day , 2000-08-14
- Kemble's Cascade Astronomy Picture of the Day , 2010-01-28
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c Peter A. Bergbusch: Obituary / Nécrologie- Lucian Kemble . In: Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada . tape 93 , 1999, p. 151-152 .
- ^ Sinnott, Roger W .: Millennium star atlas: an all-sky atlas comprising one million stars to visual magnitude eleven from the Hipparcos and Tycho catalogs and ten thousand nonstellar objects. Sky Pub., 1997, accessed April 26, 2020 .
- ↑ Holger Christiansen: Shoot what the pipes give - The Battle at Kemble's Cascade. In: Part-time heroes. December 13, 2014, accessed April 27, 2020 (German).