I was able to get out for a couple imaging sessions earlier this month during the moonless night period following Full Moon heading up to first quarter.

While I still have a lot of work to do to arrive at a truly solid equipment setup and procedures that are bulletproof, I have managed to shoot a couple things before I lost them in the western glare for the year. The amazing number of galaxies in Leo and Virgo have been a theoretical target of mine and in keeping with a theme I seem to be developing of multiple deep-sky objects in the same shot, I decided to capture the combination of galaxy M108 and M97 the "Owl Nebula" just outside the bowl of the Big Dipper.