A gift from Newcastle. The sky above one Tyneside moment.

Born at the Royal Victoria Infirmary. Proposals on the Quayside under the Tyne Bridge, weddings in Jesmond, first homes in Heaton or Gosforth. Geordies who move away still say they are from the toon, and they mean it.

• The Quayside · midnight · he asked
• RVI · 2.15 pm · our canny bairn

For a Geordie living in London or abroad: the sky above the Quayside on a night they remember.

Geordies are known for being proud of where they come from and for leaving it reluctantly. A good Newcastle present usually reaches someone who has moved away: to London for work, to Australia for the sun. A picture of the sky over their part of Tyneside is a small piece of home for the hall.

Moments people choose here: a proposal on the Millennium Bridge, a first date at the Cluny in the Ouseburn, a wedding at the Civic Centre, a day at Tynemouth. A match at St James' Park works too, if the score was right.

Keep the line in the voice: Howay, pet is fine under a galaxy, and so is wor lass.

3,074 catalogued galaxies cross the zenith circle at 55.0° north. Five of the larger ones we offer, none of them listed for another city:

• NGC 3972 · 41 million light years · 0.34° off · around 10 pm in early May
• NGC 3733 · 57 million light years · 0.13° off · around 10 pm in early May
• NGC 5874 · 150 million light years · 0.23° off · around 10 pm in late June
• NGC 3921 · 278 million light years · 0.10° off · around 10 pm in early May
• IC 1237 · 410 million light years · 0.05° off · around 10 pm in late July

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

Nearby: Leeds · Manchester · Edinburgh · Birmingham.