Hoag's Object is a rare ring galaxy located about 600 million light-years away in the constellation Serpens Caput. Discovered by Arthur Hoag in 1950, it features a nearly perfect ring of young blue stars surrounding an older yellow core. The galaxy spans about 148,000 light-years in diameter and has an estimated mass of 700 billion suns, making it comparable in size to the Milky Way.

Imaged over a period of a year to capture the outer ring, which is just visable!

Object: Hoag's Object

Location: Portsmouth UK

Mount:   EQ Skywatcher Wedge

Bortle Scale:   7

Nights:   2nd June 2024 & 6 April 2025

Total Subs:   1900 x 10 Subs

Seeing:    Good

Fits Stacked: Astro Pixel Processor

Post-ProcessingSteps : 

1.  GraXpert - Background extraction.  Denoise v2.0.  Siril - remove green noise, colour calibration, histogram stretch