Rod Pommier from Portland, Oregon
Spiral galaxy M94 earns the nickname of the Cat’s Eye Galaxy for its hypnotic visual appearance — the disk surrounding its core is highlighted by a bright blue ring of star formation, called a starburst ring. Outside the disk lies what appears to be a faint outer ring that is actually a pair of faint spiral arms. This imager used a 17-inch scope at f/6.8 to take nearly 10 hours of LRGB exposure.