Kemble’s Cascade and the star cluster NGC 1502 in Camelopardalis. The northern portion of the Cascade of stars is cut off at left here. The field includes the southern portion and the star cluster NGC 1502 at the south end of the chain of stars. Taken from home Nov. 25, 2016 with the 130mm AP f/6 apo refactor with the 6x7 field flattener and Canon 6D at ISO 800 for a stack of 4 x 6 minute exposures. Named for Father Lucien Kemble, an ardent deep-sky observer from Canada. Natural haze added some star glows, plus additional glows added with a Gaussian blur layer.
The northern spring constellations of Leo (centre), Cancer (right), and Coma Berenices (left) with Leo flanked either side by the Beehive star cluster (M44) in Cancer at right and the Coma Berenices star cluster (Mel 111) at left. The faint stars of Leo Minor are at top. This is a panorama of two segments, each a stack of 6 x 1-minute exposures with the Canon 35mm L-series lens at f/2.8 and Canon 6D MkII at ISO 800, plus two similar exposures with the Kenko Softon A filter to add the star glows, with those exposures blended in with a Lighten mode. Taken from home on the Mach 1 mount April 29, 2019. Processed TIFFs merged with Photoshop Photomerge using Re-position mode.
The northern spring constellations of Leo and Coma Berenices with the Coma star cluster (Melotte 111) prominent at left. The faint stars of Leo Minor are at top. This is a stack of 6 x 1-minute exposures with the Canon 35mm L-series lens at f/2.8 and Canon 6D MkII at ISO 800, plus two similar exposures with the Kenko Softon A filter to add the star glows, with those exposures blended in with a Lighten mode. Taken from home on the Mach 1 mount April 29, 2019.
