Croc's Eye Galaxy, M94, HaRGB (jewzaam)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Canes Venatici (CVn) · Contains: IC 3808 · M 94 · NGC 4736

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Croc's Eye Galaxy, M94, HaRGB

Croc's Eye Galaxy is a face on galaxy about 15 million light years away. It's close enough for bright individual stars to be resolved and measured by the Hubble Space Telescope!

Processing this image was interesting. I wanted to make sure the outer dust ring was visible but it's didn't want to try too hard. I ended up not doing much with it independent of the main galaxy structure. The galaxy was a RGB image with H-alpha combined. The stars were RGB only which allowed for the variation in colors from blue to red. This final touch (I add stars back at the end) is what completes the image for me.

Mixed in with all the stars in the field are a lot of tiny galaxies.. tiny to us at least! The image was processed with 2x drizzle in an effort to bring out a bit more detail in the galaxy and not loose much of the little guys hanging out all over the field. Zoom in and pan around, it's fun to go hunting for those wee little guys!

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Astrometry.net job	5751062
PixInsight job	EIMP2W1LKOJWT6P72FTQ17PV6WLBJ5DV
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PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	12h50m53s.325
RA (top/left)	12h53m29s.910
RA (top/right)	12h53m40s.299
RA (bottom/right)	12h48m12s.633
RA (bottom/left)	12h48m10s.900

Dec (center)	+41°07′12″.50
Dec (top/left)	+40°20′25″.95
Dec (top/right)	+41°52′56″.86
Dec (bottom/right)	+41°53′47″.13
Dec (bottom/left)	+40°21′14″.55

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