Messier 81 (also known as NGC 3031 or Bode’s Galaxy) is a grand design spiral galaxy about 12 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major.
It has a D25 isophotal diameter of 96,000 light-years, similar in size to that of our Milky Way
It harbours a Supermassive black hole 70 million times larger than our sun.
In late February 2022, astronomers reported that M81 may be the source of FRB 20200120E, a repeating fast radio burst.

In addition to Bode, this image also contains The Cigar Galaxy off to the left, Messier 82.

M82 is roughly the same distance of 12ml but far smaller, it is only 40.8 million light years across, it is however, 10 times more active and starbursts of this activity can be seen emanating from either side of the galaxy.

This was a challenging image simply due to the short duration is was visible and its massive distance from Earth.

This is one of my more recent pieces of work and contains 240 images, 8 hours of data.
It was taken in a Bortle 5 Sky.

The equipment used was:
Williams Optics FLT132
ASI ZWO240MC Pro OSC
Optilong L Extreem Filter
ZWO AM5
ASIAir Plus
Williams Optics 50mm Guide Scope
ASI ZWO 120mm Mini Guide Camera.

The image was processed using Pixinsight and Photoshop.