Deep-sky object
Bode's Galaxy
Bode's Galaxy is a spiral galaxy somewhere between 11 400 000 and 12 200 000 light-years away, in Ursa Major, about 74 000 light-years across.
See it live
It is on the live 3D map, where it really is.
Key facts
- Type
- Spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Ursa Major
- Distance
- 11 400 000 to 12 200 000 light-years
- Size
- about 74 000 light-years across
- Brightness from Earth
- magnitude 6.9
- Catalogue
- M81, NGC 3031
See it from here
Too faint for the eye; a telescope, or a long photograph, shows it.
How the map draws it
Drawn from published dimensions for Bode's Galaxy, as an ellipse · a soft glow 21.63′ by 11.25′ turned 157° east of north, as OpenNGC lists it, seen flat from our side; not a picture of it.