J. Kelly Beatty Gallery SOUTHERN SPLENDORS Pablo Cirielli The pristine skies over El Leoncito National Park in Argentina sparkle with southern-sky delights. Crux, the iconic Southern Cross, dangles lower left of center, with the dusty Coal Sack just below it. The large, colorful Carina Nebula, at upper right, sits between the dense clusters NGC 3522 (to its left) and NGC 3114 (right), along with the open cluster below it known as the Southern Pleiades (IC 2602). Details: Canon EOS 60D DSLR camera with 100-mm lens used at f/4 and ISO 800. Stack of 32 images; total exposure: 3.1 hours. Visit SkyandTelescope.com/gallery for more of our readers' astrophotos. 68 November 2015 sky & telescopehttp://www.SkyandTelescope.com/gallery