Looking for M101

Conditions:
Clear, no moon, steady. Some haze along the horizon and usual light pollution in the SE.

Targets Observed:
Antares, Alcor amd Mizar, M101, M11, M13, unidentified Milky Way clusters

Notes
Plan tonight was to find deep sky objects in the Southern Milky Way. The seeing in that part of the sky was bad, but tried nonetheless for M4 and IC 4604, 4605 and 4606 all around Antares, but with no luck. Too much light pollution in the southeast.

Turned my attention to M101, the spiral galaxy in Ursa Major. Took a long time to find, and couldn't see it at all with binoculars. Finally located it and was surprised by its size. Couldn't resolve any detail, and it was best in the 25mm eyepiece. Meteor crossed the field of view coming from Bootes, possible a Bootid.

Went looking at a number of open clusters in the southern Milky Way while trying to find NGC6633 and IC4756 and eventually looked at M11 again. Very nice seperation again tonight and surprised as a satellite flew through my field of view.

Finsihed up with a look at M13. Could almost resolve some structure there tonight.