Hoags Object with SN10 & QHY8

[dsoman]

Hoag's Object in Serpens. 10 - 600 second exposures.
A non-typical galaxy [ring galaxy] discovered by Arthur Hoag in 1950.
Hoag's object, at 16th magnitude, is smaller than one arc minute. The inner core is 6 arc seconds in diameter while the ring inner diameter is 28 arc seconds. The ring outer diameter is 45 arc seconds.

Located at: 15h 17m, +21deg 35'.

http://tinyurl.com/28owam6

Modified Meade SN10 [10" - f/4] on an Atlas EQ-G.
Camera: QHY8 single shot color with MPCC.
Guiding: Orion ST80, DSI & PHD.
Captured with Nebulosity.
Stacked with DSS and processed in Photoshop, Noise Ninja, GradientXterminator.
Seeing/transparency 7/8.
Wind: 0 mph.
Ambient: 20C. Hum: 20%
Estimated camera CCD Temp: -25C.

Thanks for looking,

Brent

[trevorw]

Good capture on a dim target well done Brent

[Radar]

Tough target buddy. Well done.

Ray

[stevec]

Good job on this one Brent! It's a tough object.

Cheers

Steve

[seeker372011]

awesome!love seeing people try these tough targets

[dsoman]

Thanks guys,

Appreciate it.

Brent

[TheAstroGuy]

Hey Brent,

What an awesome Galaxy hey! fantastic shot of it, very precise and clear.

Hey can you imagine what it would be like being on a planet in that system and looking up at their version of the " milky way" how weird would it look :)
Very alien but super cool, i'd like to see some artists impressions of that kind of scene.

Take care

Shane

[dsoman]

Thanks Shane.

Here is a shot of Hoag's if you have a few billion to spare:

http://imgsrc.hubblesite.org/hu/db/images/hs-2002-21-a-large_web.jpg

Brent

[TheAstroGuy]

I'll just go grab my cheque book:)

That's a pretty good looking galaxy.

[Radar]

Nice hubble image to. NASA,,,, bloody show offs!:smiley-dance017: