Dean, this is oddly coincidental, but I was also looking at M108 for a long time last night as I was working with some new equipment on my 18" Obsession. I actually took a snapshot of it and attached is the photo and also a picture from the internet side by side. It appears that it is a foreground star but neither of my planetarium programs list it, although the programs do go down to 16 and 20th mag stars. See attached.
I will try to read your mind again tonight (what would Dean look at???)
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