Jupiter in Taurus above Aldebaran and the Hyades and below the Pleiades, on January 4, 2013. Taken from home from the front yard, with the Sigma 50mm lens at f/2.8 and Canon 60Da camera at ISO 800 for 4 x 4 minutes + 2 x 3 minutes with the Kenko Softon filter for the star glows. Taken on the Kenko SkyMemo tracker. NGC 1647 and NGC 1746 clusters are also in the field, at left.
The asterism known as Kemble’s Cascade, named for Canadian astronomer and Franciscan friar Father Lucien Kemble who first drew people’s attention to this interesting line of stars near the star cluster NGC 1502 at lower left. This is in Camelopardalis. This is with the AM 106mm apo refractor at f/6 and Canon 6D MkII at ISO 1600 for a stack of 6 x 4 minutes exposures. A “glow” layer with a Luminar Orton glow effect adds the star glows, while a layer with the Astronomy Tools star spikes action adds the diffraction spikes. Taken from home Nov. 28, 2018.
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.
