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M101

M101 -- The Pinwheel Galaxy in Ursa Major.  This face-on spiral galaxy is one of the brightest in the sky, and is exceptionally beautiful.  This image is a two-frame mosaic, and each half is the sum of 4 fifteen minute exposures with my LX-200 and ST-7 working at f/5.  This gives 1.4 arc-sec pixels.  I used CCDSoft and DeepSky to process.