M101

Spiral galaxy

Constellation- Ursa Major

Right Ascension: 14h 03m 26s

Declination: +54° 19' 33"

Distance: 27,000,000 light years

Visual Brightness: 7.7 mag

Apparent Dimension: 40 arc minutes

Image information-

Date taken-May 26, 2005

Telescope/Focal length/Camera/Temperature- Takahashi FS-78 @ f/8.1, ST-8XE NABG @ -15C, autoguided with CCDSoft Ver. 5.0

Integrations- L = 10x300 seconds binned 1x1

Processing- Flats and darks in CCDsoft Ver 5.0, aligned and combined in CCDSoft, levels and unsharp mask in Photoshop CS