My last photo of Bode's Galaxy (January 29) was not very good. Last night I took sixteen thirty second exposures, 1600 ISO at 400mm, and stacked them with Deep Sky Stacker.
Much better results. There are four galaxies in this frame, Bode's Galaxy in the center, the Cigar Galaxy to the right, and two others that I can't name right now. This is nearly full frame, slightly cropped. Bode's Galaxy is nearly 12,000,000 light years from planet Earth, it is about 90,000,000 light years in diameter and contains around 250 billion stars.