This is a Telescope Live LRGB dataset from the CHI-1 telescope at the observatory in El Sauce, Chile.

Super Nove SN 2023RVE can be seen in the lower spiral arm in lower mid/center of the image.  This image is a cropped version of the original full frame image to give more emphasis to the Galaxy and its associated super nova.

The integration on this target is approximately eight and half hours.  I did try out the "new" Pixinsight/AI enabled version of the GraXpert freeware as a gradient removal tool in PixInsight vs the     normal DBE process.  I have to say that I'm pleased with the result and it is a bit faster than the manual DBE process        with the results as good or better, so definitely a time saver.  The other benefit that tipped the scales for me is that this latest version is useable within PixInsight.  In previous versions it was necessary to work  with the image outside of PixInsight,  which is also the case for its competitor GradientXterminator from RC Astro.  Call me lazy, but I am unwilling to jump out of PixInsight for processing unless I'm performing some last final stage touch up, which I seldom do anymore simply because native and 3rd party tools in PixInsight have become so capable that there is very little need to perform any final tweaks in Photoshop or other applications outside of PixInsight.  YMMV.

The CHI-1 OTA/QHY600 full frame camera typically provide such high quality images sets, that tools like DBE or GraXpert don't have a lot of correction to perform.

Galaxies are another DSO that I like working with but with few exceptions they are too far away/too small in my OTA's FoV to make them a normal part of my imaging list.  Telescope Live and similar services offer a way to allow amateurs like myself to work with images sets that we could never acquire on our own.

Please like and comment below, let me know what you think of this image!!!

CS
Clayton

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From Wikipedia:NGC 1097 (also known as Caldwell 67) is a barred spiral galaxy about 45 millionlight years away in the constellationFornax. It was discovered by William Herschel on 9 October 1790. It is a severely interacting galaxy with obvious tidal debris and distortions caused by interaction with the companion galaxy NGC 1097A.Four supernovae have been observed in NGC 1097: SN 1992bd (type II, mag. 15), SN 1999eu (type II-pec, mag. 19.7), SN 2003B (type II, mag. 17.6),=10.5px and SN 2023rve (type II, mag. 14).

NGC 1097 is also a Seyfert galaxy. Deep photographs revealed four narrow optical jets that appear to emanate from the nucleus. These have been interpreted as manifestations of the (currently weak) active nucleus. Subsequent analysis of the brightest jet's radio-to-X-ray spectral energy distribution were able to rule out synchrotron and thermal free-free emission. The optical jets are in fact composed of stars. The failure to detect atomic hydrogen gas in the jets (under the assumption that they were an example of tidal tails) using deep 21 cm HI imaging with the Very Large Array radio telescope and numerical simulations led to the current interpretation that the jets are actually the shattered remains of a cannibalized dwarf galaxy.NGC 1097 has a supermassive black hole at its center, which is 140 million times the mass of the Sun.=10.5px  Around the central black hole is a glowing ring of star-forming regions with a network of gas and dust that spirals from the ring to the black hole. An inflow of material toward the central bar of the galaxy causes new stars to be created in the ring. The ring is approximately 5,000 light-years in diameter, the spiral arms of the galaxy extend tens of thousands of light-years beyond the ring.=10.5px  NGC 1097 has two satellite galaxies, NGC 1097A and NGC 1097B. Dwarf elliptical galaxy NGC 1097A is the larger of the two. It is a peculiar elliptical galaxy that orbits 42,000 light-years from the center of NGC 1097. Dwarf galaxy NGC 1097B (5 x 106 solar masses), the outermost one, was discovered by its HI emission, and appears to be a typical dwarf irregular. Little else is known about it.