72 ASTRONOMY • DECEMBER 2018
Send your images to:
Astronomy Reader Gallery, P. O. Box
1612, Waukesha, WI 53187. Please
include the date and location of the
image and complete photo data:
telescope, camera, filters, and
exposures. Submit images by email
to [email protected].- ONE RING
Astronomy columnist Glenn Chaple
discovered Chaple’s Arc in the mid- 197 0s
while looking for the double star
HJ 147 0 in Cygnus. Also known as the
Cygnus Fairy Ring, this ring of suns has
a diameter of 22 '. • Derek Santiago - RISING SUN
The Sun is hidden by a cloud bank,
but impressive crepuscular rays still fill
the eastern sky July 2 0, 201 8. The
Yangt ze River flows in the foreground
in Shanghai’s Wusong Paotaiwan
Wetland Forest Park. • David Xu - GATHERING
Mars (the brightest object), Saturn
(top), and globular cluster M22 in
Sagittarius group together March 31 ,
201 8. Close inspection of the image
reveals Titan just below Saturn.
- Damian Peach
- AND IN THE DARKNESS...
Dark nebulae Barnard 8, B9, and B 11
are rarely imaged. They lie in the
constellation Camelopardalis the
Giraffe at the edge of the Milky Way.
- Patrick Winkler
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