On Sunday, December 14th, I captured an image of Messier 81 (M81), which is also known as Bode's Nebula. M81 is not a nebula, but is in fact a barred spiral galaxy. Bode's Nebula was catalogued as a nebula by early astronomer Charles Messier. At the time, there was a misconception that there was only one galaxy: The Milky Way. In 1924, Edwin Hubble was the first to prove that some of these faint objects, which were classified as nebulae, were in fact "island universes" (th