This is yet another cropped segment of an M106 widefield taken late April 2020.

This formation reminds me of the shape of a Gibson Flying V guitar. NGC 4026 is the headstock, NGC 4088 is the tenon or base of the neck, and NGC 4100 and NGC 4157 make up the points of the body.

A collection of cool little galaxies of varying shapes and orientation, in the big bear.

I really enjoy studying the various orientations and varieties of galaxies in Ursa, a rich area of faint fuzzy DSOs.

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From SkySafari atlas and Wiki:

NGC 4088 - "In large telescopes NGC 4088 shows a central bar that contains a small, nearly stellar nucleus and is encircled by thick spiral arms. Several bright knots are visible. The central region is mottled with small light and dark patches. The galaxy forms a physical pair with NGC 4085, which is located 11′ away. NGC 4088 is a grand design spiral galaxy. This means that the spiral arms in the galaxy's disk are sharply defined."

NGC 4157: This is "a barred spiral galaxy of some 105,000 light-years across (about the same size as our Milky Way galaxy), located about 35.6 million light-years away from Earth in the northern constellation of Ursa Major (the Great Bear), while it is receding from us at approximately 774 kilometers per second. It is part of the Ursa Major North Group of galaxies. This galaxy is seen almost edge-on and quite elongated, but it is tilted just enough to see some of the core detail with several dark dust lanes. It has a very low surface brightness and is the faintest of three neighboring galaxies in Ursa Major, including NGC 4026 and NGC 4088."

NGC 4100: "NGC 4100 is located some 67 million light-years away... (and) this spiral galaxy has a diameter of about 80,000 light-years. NGC 4100 was discovered by Herschel in 1788."

NGC 4026: "Is a 10th magnitude Spiral Galaxy appearing in the constellation Ursa Major. It is 44 million light years from our solar system. NGC 4026 appears roughly 4.4 x 0.9 arcminutes in size, corresponding to a physical diameter of 56000 light years. It is a spiral galaxy of morphological type S0, and is receding at 970 kilometers per second - about 0.3% of light speed."