Combination of 5, 3 minute images unfiltered.
SBIG STL-1001E CCD. 20" f/6.8 Dall-Kirkham cassegrain telescope at prime focus.
NGC 2681 is a large and bright face-on spiral galaxy in Ursa Major. In the telescope it appears almost perfectly circular with a bright core. looking just like an elliptical galaxy. However photographs clearly show a disc, meaning it is a spiral. Of the numerous faint background galaxies visible in the image, the brightest is the 17.1 magnitude, PGC 24936, visible to the upper right of NGC 2681.