I really need to brush up on my astronomy

I could not for the life of me find the north star. I had no problem finding ursa major, but for some reason, couldn't locate the ursa minor where the north star is located.

click on the image to see it in large size

North star is somewhere to the right of this frame.
Shortly after my camera finished processing this image, its battery died, otherwise I would've repositioned and tried again.

This exposure was about 13 minutes long, it's a little overexposed, I underestimated how much light there'd be.

Read more...