M101 (NGC-5457) The Pinwheel Galaxy, and surrounding galaxies.  M-101 is a face-on spiral galaxy in Ursa Major. It lies 21 million light years from Earth. It is a huge galaxy, with a diameter of 250,000 light years and a population of over 1 Trillion stars.  Surrounding M-101, starting directly north and moving clockwise, are NGC-5473, NGC-5422, PGC-49822, UGC-8837 (bottom RH corner), NGC-5474 (bottom LH quadrant), PGC-50505, NGC-5477 (at 10 o'clock) and NGC-5471 (between 5477 and the end of a spiral arm). This image was taken on July 6, 2026, and is a 2 hour 36 minute integration of 1 minute exposures taken through an AT-92 92mm f/5.5 APO Triplet refractor. The imaging camera was a ZWO 2600MC Pro color CMOS camera, binned 1 X 1. Image captured using N.I.N.A., Processed in PixInsight, post-processed in PhotoShop 2026.