M101 29 April 2011. Light pollution and rising humidity made for a night of just bagging numerous objects, no serious imaging;
observing season is pretty much over for the Gulf Coast. NGC5474 down and to the right of M101.
One of the individual unprocessed images stacked and processed to produce this is at http://www.pbase.com/emagowan/image/134373319
An image of this galaxy with a supernova is at http://www.pbase.com/image/138145015