Gallery, page 1

Several of the deep-sky objects described in the Night Sky Highlights of this issue are displayed on these two pages of the Gallery. All the images on this page were taken by Leo Taylor.

Messier 3, a dense globular cluster in Canes Venatici. Taken with a Meade 2080 8-inch Schmidt-Cassegrain and a Pentax K110D camera.

Messier 44, the Beehive Cluster in Cancer. Taken with an Orion ST80 telescope and an SBIG ST4000XCM imager.

Messier 106, spiral galaxy in Canes Venatici, and (to the left) galaxy NGC 4348. Taken with a Meade 2080 8-inch Schmidt-Cassegrain and an SBIG ST7E imager.