APOD: Kemble's Cascade (2010 Jan 28)

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APOD: Kemble's Cascade (2010 Jan 28)

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Image Kemble's Cascade

Explanation: An asterism is just a recognized pattern of stars that is not one the 88 official constellations. For example, one of the most famous (and largest) asterisms is the Big Dipper within the constellation Ursa Major. But this pretty chain of stars, visible with binoculars towards the long-necked constellation of Camelopardalis, is also a recognized asterism. Known as Kemble's Cascade, it contains about 20 stars nearly in a row, stretching over five times the width of a full moon. Tumbling from the upper right to lower left in the picture, Kemble's Cascade was made popular by astronomy enthusiast Lucian Kemble. The bright object at the lower left is the relatively compact open cluster of stars, NGC 1502.

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Re: Kemble s Cascade (2010 Jan 28)

Post by NoelC » Thu Jan 28, 2010 2:03 pm

Art, you free-associate better (and more entertainingly) than anyone I know. Does that level of creativity reinforce your scientific endeavors?

I do it as well, though I'm not quite so public about it. I can't count the times I've dreamed the answer to a difficult problem or conundrum.

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Re: Kemble s Cascade (2010 Jan 28)

Post by neufer » Thu Jan 28, 2010 3:36 pm

NoelC wrote:Art, you free-associate better (and more entertainingly) than anyone I know.
Does that level of creativity reinforce your scientific endeavors?
Thanks, Noel.
Well, it certainly helps me think "outside of the box."

Unfortunately, I am terrible at following directions, procedures, etc.

In Physics lab back in the '60's my lab instructor commented that if I ever worked in the nuclear industry he hoped it would be far out in the desert.
NoelC wrote:I do it as well, though I'm not quite so public about it.
I can't count the times I've dreamed the answer to a difficult problem or conundrum.
My hero, Lev Landau was a big advocate of solving problems in his head while lying down.
Art Neuendorffer

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