Bode's Galaxy
Galaxy
A bright spiral tilted just enough to show its arms, and near enough that a small telescope will resolve its core.
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What it looks like
A photograph of this patch of sky, taken by a telescope on the ground. Bode's Galaxy sits in the middle, with the surrounding sky around it.
Brightness adjusted so faint detail shows. Every picture here is a rendering of the survey's measurements rather than a measurement itself, and this is the same setting for all of them.
- Position
- 148.88821, 69.06531Source: NASA Extragalactic Database
- Brightness
- about 6.92Source: HyperLeda
- Apparent size
- about 21.63 x 11.25 arcminutes
- Shape
- Sab
- Constellation
- Ursa MajorSource: OpenNGC
Catalogue designations
NGC3031, M81, 2MASX J09553318+6903549, IRAS 09514+6918, MCG +12-10-010, PGC 028630, SDSS J095533.16+690355.1, UGC 05318
Source: OpenNGC