This unique line of about 20 stars is known as ...

Orion's belt
Orion's sword
Ophiuchus
Kemble's cascade
It was named by in honour of Father Lucian Kemble (1922–1999), a Franciscan friar and amateur astronomer who wrote a letter to Houston about the asterism, describing it as "a beautiful cascade of faint stars tumbling from the northwest down to the open cluster NGC 1502" that he had discovered while sweeping the sky with a pair of 7×35 binoculars
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Orion's belt
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flagAustralia
11%
11%
5%
72%
18
flagFrance
0%
9%
27%
63%
11
flagRepublic of Ireland
31%
25%
0%
43%
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14%
7%
42%
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flagthe United Kingdom
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18%
18%
37%
53
flagAustria
34%
17%
12%
36%
41
flagSwitzerland
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18%
31%
36%
22
flagthe Philippines
46%
13%
6%
33%
15
flagPoland
35%
18%
18%
26%
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flagIndia
38%
21%
13%
24%
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flagthe United States
31%
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21%
21%
83
flagGermany
38%
19%
20%
20%
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