DESCRIPTION           Monster M101, in an anaglyph, is almost too big to be taken in in a computer screen, yet the anaglyph already at once tells us a couple of useful things. First, the lower semi-detached arm that fades out in left field may have been clipped by something sizeable to cause the abrupt discontinuity and jog from forward to a back vector. Secondly, the upper parallel swoops are yawing away from us into deep space, whereas the lower right is bulged forward. In basic, this lay is not unlike the Whirlpool galaxy, except, M101 is so massively large that a small size picture reduces its details to mere plips and plops. As large, only 35% of the image original's size, many details are folded away into bits and miniscule pieces but the large scale can be taken in, because of the anaglyph. Be foretold, before you figure it out yourself, that this anaglyph has several 'illegals' from a binnocular stereo purists point of view. When the two images (from a single mono) were prepared for creating the anaglyph the original as it appeared in anaglyph form had no stereo whatever to speak of, it took quite a few points offshifting the horizontal and also the vertical to get stereo to emerge. You can see the offshifts by any dots with a red ghost nearby off horizontal axis. Bear in mind the mightiness of this galaxy, most hot spots larger than a dot are galaxies in their own right, captured and savaged by mighty M101, which is ridden with galaxy remnants and ancient shells whizzing around at convention speeds. For instance vertically down the inside, down the right core flank, is a straight line trail caused by something hurtling through the area leaving a telltale straight line path, the 'intruder' bursting out and ramming into the lower arm nearby a raised bright oblong. Another 'intruder' has sailed out around the core above the core and has slingshotted out along parallel tracks of its own making to the other side of a rightside arm where it can be seen as a large dollop out in the open on its own. And in the lower arm, to the right of the intruder, something has impacted the arm causing a large radial pit (splash) in the arm. Many things to be seen in an anaglyph like this, some of the more interesting items too small even in this large view to be studied, for instance the 'rattle' could go by unnoticed