Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Ursa Major (UMa)  ·  Contains:  HD96233  ·  HD96717  ·  HD97302  ·  HD97321  ·  HD97455  ·  M 108  ·  M 97  ·  NGC 3556  ·  NGC 3587  ·  NGC 3594  ·  Owl Nebula  ·  PK148+57.1
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M97 - Owl Nebula & M108 - Surfboard Galaxy, Wesley Klehm
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M97 - Owl Nebula & M108 - Surfboard Galaxy

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M97 - Owl Nebula & M108 - Surfboard Galaxy, Wesley Klehm
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M97 - Owl Nebula & M108 - Surfboard Galaxy

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A busy area when you go deep.  M97 is a nice little planetary nebula and the Surfboard galaxy is really neat looking.  My rendition almost most makes it look like a jewel.

But what's also super cool is taking a look at some of the background fuzzies. 
By no means did i heavily research this, but i perused Sky Safari pro looking at background PGC galaxies and i found one that was 7.2 Billion LY away (PGC 5402145), and sure enough, it's a little smudge in my image!  That's just super cool and exciting to me to have caught a few photons that were emitted well before our planet formed.

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M97 - Owl Nebula & M108 - Surfboard Galaxy, Wesley Klehm