Great Bear constellation is well known undeer the northern hemisphere. This large constellation lies far away from the Milky Way plane, so there should be visible a lot of galaxies that will not be obscured by Milky Way dust and gas clouds. And there are 🙂
“On the nF (NE) side, there is a faint ray interrupting the roundness.” Admiral Smyth described it as “A bright-class round nebula; it is a lucid white, and lights up in the centre … between these [stars,] the sky is intensely black, and shows the nebula as if floating in awful and illimitable space, at an inconceivable distance.”
The dusty lines in the NGC3077 are a result of strong gravitational interactions between all three galaxies (M81, M82 and NGC3077) and this small galaxy is also a place where many star formation regions are present. NGC3077 is neither spiral nor elliptical galaxy – it is of type I0 peculiar. So take a look into peculiar galaxy NGC3077 🙂
Clear skies!