Before the clouds rolled in on Thursday night I was experimenting with some techniques for polar aligning my Astrotrac and finished off with 6 2 minute exposures of M101 in Ursa Major. One of the nice things about wide field photography is that you never know what else is going to turn up in the picture and this whole area is rich in galaxies and I’ve annotated the picture with the names of the brightest.
Telescope: ZenithStar 70
Camera: Canon 350D
Exposure: 6x 2 minute