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Proper Name	None
Messier Number	M108
NGC/IC Number	NGC 3556
Constellation	Ursa Major
Right Ascension	11h 11m 31s
Declination	+55° 40' 27"
Distance	c.39,100,000 light years c.12,000,000 parsecs
Magnitude	Apparent: +10.0 Absolute: -20.4
Diameter	Apparent: 8.6' Actual: c.90,000 light years
Hubble Type	Sc Spiral
Optimum Visibility	March / April (Usually visible from northern latitudes)
Notes	An outlying member of the Ursa Major Cluster, M108 is oriented almost edge-on to the Milky Way, and so appears as a narrow elliptical shape in the skies of Earth. Some sources classify it as a barred spiral rather than a simple Sc spiral galaxy.

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