M94 rings galaxy (John Favalessa)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Canes Venatici (CVn) · Contains: M 94 · NGC 4736 · PGC 2171588 · PGC 2171798 · PGC 2172172 · PGC 2172424 · PGC 2172498 · PGC 2174346 · PGC 2174701 · PGC 2175000 · PGC 2179969 · PGC 2180031 · PGC 2180215 · PGC 2180382 · PGC 2180621

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M94 rings galaxy

One of the most unusual galaxies I've imaged. Looking at it closely, I see 4 or 5 rings. I was able to capture some of the outer faint ring, then a transition ring, then an outer inner ring, then could be a star forming ring area with Ha and blue stars, then a dark ring surrounding a bright core. Other than blending in some Ha this is fairly true to life color. I'm more than pleased with the image as with full moon, LRGB and finally narrowband Ha. I'll look forward to imaging next year with more focal length...so interesting...must read up on this one.

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L = 26X300s; RGB = 12X300s; Ha = 16X300s, 6.3 hours total

I love to see how many distant galaxies in these images hence I turn on PGC plate solving...hope that's not distracting to you. and IC 3808 in the bottom left corner is 226MLYs away! Oh, M94 is 16MLYs.

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Description: cropped in case you didn't zoom in. but I do love the wider field better.

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Astrometry.net job	4684055
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RA (center)	12h50m53s.55
RA (top/left)	12h52m12s.44
RA (top/right)	12h52m16s.30
RA (bottom/right)	12h49m33s.92
RA (bottom/left)	12h49m31s.52

Dec (center)	+41°07′24″.2
Dec (top/left)	+40°49′33″.7
Dec (top/right)	+41°24′40″.7
Dec (bottom/right)	+41°25′11″.4
Dec (bottom/left)	+40°50′04″.2

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