The Messier Ten Minute Challenge

M94 - Galaxy in Canes Venatici

This image was created by median combining 7 x 90 second unfiltered images taken with a Takahashi Epsilon 250 with SBIG ST-8XE CCD. The image has been cut down to be 20 x 20 arc minutes in size.

Messier 94 (NGC 4736) is a spiral galaxy with an extremely bright inner region surrounded by a ring of active star-forming regions. Further out is a far less bright outer ring of an older yellowish stellar population.


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In collaboration with the Remote Astronomical Society Observatory

Martin Nicholson - Daventry, United Kingdom.

This page was last updated on January 14th 2008.