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M94

Crocodile Eye or Cat's Eye Galaxy · NGC 4736

Constellation
Canes Venatici
Shape
Spiral
Magnitude
8.2
Size
11′
Position
12h 51m, +41.1°
Distance
16.1 ± 1.2 million ly

My Sky

Rise, highest and set over your place, for any night: M94

Further info

NASA: Messier 94

NED: M94

SIMBAD: M94

Wikipedia: Messier 94

Sources

Distance: NED-D (Steer 2020)

Magnitude and size: NGC 2000.0 (Sinnott 1988)

Shape: RC3 (de Vaucouleurs et al. 1991)

Name: Wikipedia, List of Messier objects

M94, NGC 4736
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA