M 101 the Pinwheel

Messier 101
By Serge Vieillard

It was a Spring weekend with the club at Mount Beuvray in Morvan, [France] and superb weather, despite a strong wind, refrigerating and annoying us. I was prepared for a beautiful feast of Messier galaxies with the T400-c….
… M101 was my main goal of these nights. I spend long hours and redid a second drawing on a pre-field star for greater rigor of proportion. The finale is a composite of these two drawings

Object: M 101 (NGC 5457) face on spiral galaxy – Artist: Serge Vieillard – Sketch Date: Early in 2010 Sketch Location: Movan, France