A gift from Birmingham. The sky above one Brummie moment.

Born at Birmingham Women's Hospital in Edgbaston. Engaged with a ring from the Jewellery Quarter, where jewellery has been made for more than two centuries. A canal-side flat by Brindleyplace, a house in Moseley or Harborne. Brummies tend to know exactly where they were.

• Ring from the Jewellery Quarter · she said yes
• Moseley · keys at 3 pm · home

For someone from Birmingham now in London or abroad: the sky above Edgbaston, Erdington or Acocks Green on their day.

Birmingham is one of the youngest cities in Europe, and a lot of its moments are firsts: first degree at Aston or Selly Oak, first job in the Colmore Row offices, first child at the Women's in Edgbaston. A first is the easiest moment to frame, because people remember the hour.

The Jewellery Quarter has made rings for more than two centuries. If a ring was bought in the Jewellery Quarter, use the proposal itself as the moment and the Quarter as the place; the two presents then belong together.

For a Balti-night proposal on the Ladypool Road, a wedding at the Council House or a Diwali that saw a grandchild born, the line can carry the place in a few words and the picture carries the rest.

2,585 catalogued galaxies cross the zenith circle at 52.5° north. Five of the larger ones we offer, none of them listed for another city:

• NGC 3953 · 50 million light years · 0.16° off · around 10 pm in early May
• NGC 4102 · 41 million light years · 0.22° off · around 10 pm in early May
• UGC 4277 · 260 million light years · 0.16° off · around 10 pm in late February
• NGC 5875 · 168 million light years · 0.04° off · around 10 pm in late June
• UGC 9853 · 277 million light years · 0.04° off · around 10 pm in late June

Each goes to one moment only, so yours is whichever was nearest your minute and still free.

Nearby: Manchester · Leeds · Cardiff · London.