BenignVanilla wrote:

Took advice from the group and tried for M51...I was looking in the area,
that some star charts said it would be in, and I found a faint fuzzy. In my
excitement I bumped the scope, and lost the image. Never found it again.
*sigh*

Actually it will be two faint fuzzies side by side, M51 and NGC 5195. Dim but
do-able, at least if you can get about 25 miles away from Balto-DC. It's one
that you need to move the scope around to confirm there's something there.

I viewed it a couple nights ago, and what's tantalizing is that it looks like
some structure would be visible it the darn thing was just brighter, or the
skies darker.