M97 the Owl nebula is a planetary nebula located in the constellation Ursa Major. It is quite faint with an integrated magnitude 11 and a size of 3.3' x 3.4' . This image was obtained using the St5c ccd camera and 11" scope. Twenty five integrations of twenty five seconds each using Track & Accumulate software in CCdops for two images.The two images were then scaled ,registered and averaged using Aip4Win software.