Image taken @ ~ f/3.3, 120 sec. dark field subtracted.
Distance 25 million light years
Visual Brightness 11.0 (mag)
Apparent Dimension 8 X 1(arc min)
The nearly edge-on spiral galaxy M108 appears to have no bulge and no pronounced core at all, it is just a detail-rich mottled disk with heavy obscuration along the major axis, with few H II regions and young star clusters exposed against the chaotic background -- in a word: "Very Dusty".
Upon quick examination, this galaxy appears very similar in appearence to the irregulat galaxy M82 (it fooled me for a while).