GALLERY u u GOBBLING GAL A X Y Steve Mazlin & Warren Keller The giant elliptical galaxy NGC 1316 (a strong radio source called Fornax A) has begun to ingest the smaller spiral galaxy NGC 1317 to its north. DETAILS: RCOS 16-inch Ritchey-Chrétien astrograph, FLI ProLine PL16803 CCD camera, and LRGB filters. Total exposure: 66 hours. u THE CONE AGLOW Jim Renard The Cone Nebula, part of NGC 2264, is a cold cloud of molecular hydrogen in Monoceros. DETAILS: 24-inch Ritchey-Chrétien astrograph, SBIG STL-11000M CCD camera used with Baader Hα and LRGB filters. Total exposure: 14½ hours. q DOUBLE STAR TR AILS Dario Gianobile No trickery here - time-lapse star trails, a simple mirror, and light painted on a rural Italian farmhouse create a surreal view of the nighttime sky. DETAILS: Canon EOS 7D DSLR camera at ISO 800 and a 11-to-16-mm zoom lens used at 11 mm. Foreground exposure: 30 seconds; star trails: 6⅓ hours. 74 A P R I L 2 0 1 7 * SK Y & TELESCOPE