GALLERY u GAL ACTIC MERGER Kfir Simon The Antennae Galaxies (NGC 4038/4039) are a pair of colliding galaxies in Corvus. Their interaction has kicked off a furious epoch of starbirth while ejecting two streams of stars. DETAILS: 6-inch f/8 Hypergraph with FLI PL16803 CCD camera. Total exposure: 4 hours through color filters. q OPTICAL DOUBLE Jamie Cooper Alberio is one of the most striking pairs of stars in the night sky, though recent observations by the ESO Gaia spacecraft have determined it to be a chance alignment and not a true binary. DETAILS: 8-inch Sky-Watcher Newtonian reflector with Canon EOS 6D DSLR camera. Total exposure: 30 minutes. u AVIAN GHOST Jason Guenzel The faint reflection nebula vdB 152 lies at the end of the long dark nebula Barnard 175 in Cepheus. This remarkably deep image brings out additional wisps of reddish Hα in the region. DETAILS: Celestron EdgeHD 8 Schmidt-Cassegrain with ZWO ASI1600MM camera. Total exposure: 26.1 hours through color filters. Gallery showcases the finest astronomical images submitted to us by our readers. Send your best shots to gallery@skyandtelescope.com. See skyandtelescope.com/aboutsky/guidelines. Visit skyandtelescope.com/gallery for more of our readers' astrophotos. 76 M A RCH 2 019 * SK Y & TELESCOPEhttp://www.skyandtelescope.com/aboutsky/guidelines http://www.skyandtelescope.com/gallery