I had one hour last night to get a 2-framer of the Merak region before thick heavy cloud came over. As it was, many of these subs were taken through thin high cloud which put a great glow around Merak. Merak is the brightest star and to the right we have the Broken Engagement Ring. To the lower left we have Messier 108 and Messier 97 (The Owl nebula) – in the background there are dozens of faint fuzzies. Only 18 subs at 4-minutes per sub for each frame using all 3 scopes and cameras – so managed the job in the hour, and got a half reasonable image at the end of it which was very surprising 🙂
