On Tuesday 8th May, the FT Team organised a themed-observing day; for which all observations were dedicated to creating a mosaic of M101, The Pinwheel Galaxy.

Users, signed up to reserved sessions of their choice and were given different co-ordinates to observe with the telescope. Each school was given three different areas of the galaxy to observe and were able to make their own mini-mosaic; then at the end of the night, all the data was collected to form a complete mosaic.

You can see the main M101 Mosaic page and the data that was collected that night is available on this Data Page. Users were also given these instructions for The GIMP to make their own mosaic using the images they took.

Here is the final mosaic that was produced (click for a larger version):