This wide-field image frames the end stars of the Big Dippers handle ¡X Mizar at top, and Alkaid at bottom ¡X?and to also include in the frame the bright galaxies Messier 101 (at left) and Messier 51 (at lower right, aka the Whirlpool Galaxy). They are small on this image scale but the image serves for a finder chart illustration of the location of these galaxies relative to the Handle.