This is Messier 94, the bright face-on spiral galaxy in Canes Venatici. Note the outer faint ring of starlight. The galaxy was discovered by Pierre Mechain in 1781. Charles Messier observed and catalogued it that year. This is a stack of just 5 x 8-minute exposures with the Canon EOS Ra at ISO 800 through the SharpStar 140mm refractor at f/6.5 with no field flattener.
The Messier galaxies M95 (bottom right) and M96 (bottom centre) with M105 at top, as the largest galaxy in a trio, with NGC 3389 (bottom left) and NGC 3384 (top left in the trio), all in Leo. M95 and M96 are barred spiral galaxies, while M105 is an elliptical. This is a stack of 20 x 6-minute exposures at ISO 1600 with the Canon EOS Ra camera on the Astro-Physics 130mm EDF refractor at f/6 with the AP 6x7 field flattener. Guided with the MGEN3 autoguider and dithered 5 pixels between each exposure and median stacked. Taken April 15, 2021.
