Friday, January 29, 2010

3.2

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Kemble's Cascade

In this picture there is an asterisms. An Asterism by deffinition is just a recognized patter of stars. An asterism is not one of the the 88 official constellations. the lagest asterism is the big dipper, not a costilation. This pretty chain of stars is near the costellation of Camelopardis. Another asterism is Kemble's Cascade, it is so large that is has about 20 stars nearly in a row creating this asterism. It is so large that is stretches over 5 times the width of a full moon. In this picture arounf the upper right to the lower left in the picture, Kemble's Cascade was created and made more popular by Lucan. In this picture we can see a lot of beautiful stars that are created by consillations and even more asterisms.

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