A gift from Leeds. The sky above one Leeds evening.

Born at Leeds General Infirmary or St James's. Students who met in Headingley and never went home. Sunday walks in Roundhay Park, a back-to-back in Hyde Park, a new build in Kirkstall. Leeds is where a lot of Yorkshire's first chapters are written.

• Headingley · freshers' week · where it began
• LGI · 6.20 am · welcome, little one

For someone who studied in Leeds and stayed in touch with it: the night they met in Headingley.

Many of the people who ask for a Leeds present no longer live in Leeds. They studied at the university or Beckett, met someone in a Headingley pub, and left for London or Manchester with the city still in them. The night it started is the natural choice, and the student house's street is the place.

For families who stayed, Roundhay Park, Kirkgate Market and Elland Road all appear in the stories that get told at Christmas, and any one of them can be the line under the picture.

Yorkshire people are also famously careful with money. If that is the person you are buying for, choose the smallest size and let them say it was too much anyway.

2,743 catalogued galaxies cross the zenith circle at 53.8° north. Five of the larger ones we offer, none of them listed for another city:

• NGC 2701 · 112 million light years · 0.03° off · around 10 pm in early March
• UGC 4514 · 33 million light years · 0.34° off · around 10 pm in early March
• NGC 3310 · 48 million light years · 0.30° off · around 10 pm in mid-April
• UGC 11510 · 187 million light years · 0.08° off · around 10 pm in early September
• UGC 11453 · 184 million light years · 0.30° off · around 10 pm in late August

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

Nearby: Manchester · Newcastle · Birmingham · London.