Great night. It was clear and the Milky Way was very visible. We had a great turnout of members and had about seven telescopes brought by the members. My quest for a better image of the Whirlpool galaxy (M51) is being realized: using long exposures of about 40-50 seconds, the spiral is showing through. These two images were patched up with Photoshop to get rid of some random noise from the CCD, and the more experienced John O’ Neal from the Black River Astro Society is going to do some more edits on these – stay tuned.