"BenignVanilla" wrote in message ...
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*

I've always thought that M51 is overrated. There are other galaxies in
Canes Venatici that impress me more..but then I don't have a huge-ass
light bucket telescope either.

M82 kicks m51's ass