Zoomed-in view of the inner regions of the HST image of NGC 4494 (left panels), its best-fitting model by galfit (central panels), and residuals (right panels). The top and bottom panels show the observations obtained with filters F555W and F814W, respectively. The arrows indicate the orientation on the sky. The scale is 0.082 kpc arcsec⁻¹. Dashed ellipses marks the location where the counter-rotating component should be located: inner ellipse has $1\stackrel{″}{.}5$ semi-major axis (where the signal of the counter-rotating component becomes relevant), central ellipses has 6″ semi-major axis (where the flux contribution of the counter-rotating component is maximum), outer ellipses has 18″ semi-major axis (where the signal of the counter-rotating component is negligible). Dashed vertical lines mark the position of the FORS2 long-slit.