M108

Messier 108 is situated near the conspicuous star Beta Ursa Majoris, not far from M97, the Owl Nebula, and appears as a silver-white, saucer-shaped nearly edge-on galaxy in amateur telescopes. It seems to have no pronounced central bulge and is basically a 'smudge' with heavy obscuration along the major axis. The galaxy is about 45 million light years from Earth and was host to a type II supernova in 1969.

Taken during the summer of 2006 with the 402 camera.