Full Moon tonight, so faint deep space objects were out of the question. Had some tracking issues with the LXD75 mount – I had to park the telescope, turn it off, and then power on and re-align a couple of times. Here is an image of Deneb in Cygnus, and the Pinwheel galaxy (also known as Messier 101 or NGC 5457) in Ursa Major. This is a first attempt at capturing the image of M101: taken in monochrome (and yes, the lense was a little dirty). This galaxy has a low surface brightness and the default magnification of the Meade DSI CCD made it difficult to find. Using the DSI is like trying to find faint objects while using a 9mm eyepiece! I have an Opticstar F0.5 Focal Reducer for standard 1.25″ focusers on order from Scope City to help out with this. The Moonlight did not help either…