Contrary to my earler post I was able to see M101 last night , my report in my log as follows.
20:00 temp 9.5 C seeing 8-10 trans 8-10.this (was not the conditions at this galaxy as it is very low down) but the seeing was still very good for a so far north object, only 8.5 degs above the horizon
Large grey oval with exstensions, brighter in the centre, 14th mag forground stars seen in front of the galaxy.
Spent quite some time trying to tease as much detail as I could.
This observation makes this my 100th Messier object
