| Date & Time: | Mar 1 2019, from 24:41 to 25:23 JST(+0900), 6min.×6shots |
| Mar 16 2019, from 26:53 to 28:42 JST(+0900), 2min.×8shots, 8min.×10shots |
| Composed 24 shots |
| Optical: | Meade 25cm(10") Schmidt-Cassegrain with conversion lens (f=1600mm, F6.3) |
| with BaaderPlanetarium Moon&Skyglow filter |
| Auto-guided with Meade LX200 Equatorial & Pictor 201XT |
| Digital Camera: | Canon EOS 6D (Remodeled) |
| Location: | Ooizumi, Hokuto city, Yamanashi pref. |
| M94 (NGC4736) / Galaxy, type (R)SA(r)ab II |
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| R.A. | 12h 50m 53.6s (2000.0) |
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| Dec. | +41° 07' 10" (2000.0) |
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| Apparent Size | 11.2×9.1' |
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| Radial Velocity | +360km/s |
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| Magnitude | 9.0 |
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| Distance | 14 million light yrs. |
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| Group of Galaxies | Canes I Group |
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| Other IDs | UGC7996, MCG7-26-58,
PGC43495 |
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M94 (NGC4736) is a large galaxy positioned around the center of Canes Venatici.
The galaxy is found to draw a line between Cor Caroli and beta CVn, and at the halfway point draw a perpendicular off to the northeast.
M94 is a circular galaxy with about 10 arc minutes diameter and 9th magnitude, it might be easily detected only with small binoculars as a blurred star-like image.
The galaxy is conspicuous that has a very bright nucleus, you may miss M94 in not so clear sky because it looks like a normal star.
This image shows the galaxy being face-on, and very dimmed beam of light spreading around the nucleus.
An apparent diameter including it reaches 25 arc minutes almost comparable to that of the moon.
The galaxy lies on about 14 million light years away, and has a span of about 140 thousand light years.
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