# Bode's Galaxy on SpaceSphere

> A bright spiral tilted just enough to show its arms, and near enough that a small telescope will resolve its core.

Canonical: https://spacesphere.sygnito.com/en/universe/bodes-galaxy

Galaxy

A bright spiral tilted just enough to show its arms, and near enough that a small telescope will resolve its core.

## Facts

- **Position**: 148.88821, 69.06531 (Source: NASA Extragalactic Database)
- **Brightness**: about 6.92 (Source: HyperLeda)
- **Apparent size**: about 21.63 x 11.25 arcminutes (Source: HyperLeda)
- **Shape**: Sab (Source: HyperLeda)
- **Constellation**: Ursa Major (Source: 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

## Can you see it tonight?

The page works this out in the visitor's browser, from their own location, and the answer is a prediction rather than an observation. It is not part of this file.

## Sources

- This research has made use of the [NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database](https://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/), which is funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and operated by the California Institute of Technology.
- We acknowledge the usage of the HyperLeda database (http://leda.univ-lyon1.fr).
- [OpenNGC](https://github.com/mattiaverga/OpenNGC), Mattia Verga, licensed [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).

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