These photos taken with a 22" f4.2 Dobsonian using a Dual-axis Equatorial Platform and Royal Gold 1000 film. All exposures by Tom Osypowski, except for NGC 4565, which was taken by Jim Eiselt. All film scanning, combining and image processing by Jim Eiselt.

M101 -- two ten minute exposures.
 M51 -- Combination of three ten minute exposures.

NGC 4565 -- two ten minute exposures.
 M65/66 -- two ten minute exposures 


CCD images taken
with  a    25" f4 Obsession telescope on an Equatorial Platform.  An SBIG
ST-6 CCD camera was used for all images.








NGC 7331 -- a combination of five 60 second
UNGUIDED
 exposures. Images taken by John Sefick and Carl Frisch.






M13 -- one 60 second UNGUIDED
exposure.  Image taken by Carl Frisch.