M81,

• Telescope: 8" f/10 refractor.
• Camera: Canon EOS D60, 6.3 MP digital SLR prosumer camera.
• 5 stacks of 4 minutes, each 45 seconds apart.
• Dark subtracted (4 darkframes averaged).
• Stretched and curved with gamma=2.22.
• Scaled and after effects with photoshop.