M94 Cat's Eye Galaxy

[Gerr]

Messier 94 (M94), also known as Cat’s Eye Galaxy or Croc’s Eye Galaxy, is a spiral galaxy located in the constellation of the hunting dogs - Canes Venatici. The Cat’s Eye Galaxy has an apparent magnitude of 8.99 and lies at a distance of 16 million light years from Earth. It has the designation NGC 4736 in the New General Catalogue.

A difficult target for my 8" reflector but the seeing conditions were good (waxing crescent moon) so an attempt was made!

Canon 650D   Optolong L-Pro filter

Lights 44x120secs (1hr 28mins)  ISO800

CC's welcome.

Gerr.

Original and cropped images:

[Gerr]

Bit more tweaking to the zoomed image:

[Adam1234]

Nice