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Cat's Eye Galaxy
M94 | Messier 94 | NGC 4736
The Cat's Eye Galaxy has a diameter of 70 arcseconds, with a faint outer ring 600 arcseconds across


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This unusual galaxy has a series of "rings" extending out to 10 arcminutes

All Images of Cat's Eye Galaxy
29 Mar 2017

Details:
Night of:Wednesday March 29, 2017
Site:Laguna Niguel
Local Time:11:00 PM | Mar 29, 2017
Altitude:64°
RA:12h 50m 53s
Declination:+41 07'
Distance:16 million light years
Magnitude:+9.0 mV
Size:11.2' x 9.1'
Camera Settings:
Telescope:9.25-SCT
Camera:Celestron NightScape + f/6.3 Reducer
f/ratio:f/6.3
Pixel Scale:1.45 arcsec
Image Size:861 x 755 pixels (0.7 MP)
20.8' x 18.2'
Exposure:30 sec
Stacked Frames:20
Total Integration:10 minutes
Post Processing:t-shirt flats
stacked in aa6
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