Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Ursa Major (UMa)  ·  Contains:  M 101  ·  NGC 5455  ·  NGC 5457  ·  NGC 5461  ·  NGC 5471  ·  NGC 5477
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M101 Pinwheel Galaxy, ngc4676
M101 Pinwheel Galaxy
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M101 Pinwheel Galaxy

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M101 Pinwheel Galaxy, ngc4676
M101 Pinwheel Galaxy
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M101 Pinwheel Galaxy

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The weather for the eclipse tomorrow looks like it'll be awful, so I took advantage of a clear night to try to take a pic of the Pinwheel Galaxy instead!
The lack of easy guidestars around this target, along with some weird tracking issues past the meridian meant I didn't quite get all the data I'd hoped for, but overall I'm pretty pleased with how things came out. But it might finally be time to trade up from my old Lodestar. The sensor is just a little too small to get a decent FOV on this longer focal-length telescope.

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M101 Pinwheel Galaxy, ngc4676