NGC 1097

NGC 1097 Barred Spiral Galaxy

From Wikipedia: NGC 1097 is a barred spiral galaxy in Fornax, about 45 million light-years away. It is also a Seyfert galaxy with a jet emerging from its core, and — like many galaxies — hosts a supermassive black hole at its center. Around that black hole lies a ring of star formation (see the galaxy's core in the image), with a web of gas and dust feeding from the ring toward the black hole.

NGC 1097 has two satellite galaxies: the dwarf elliptical NGC 1097A (upper right in the frame) is the larger of the two — a peculiar elliptical orbiting 42,000 light-years from the core of NGC 1097.

One thing Wikipedia omits — this galaxy has four tidal tails, three of which are captured here.

Planewave CDK 17"
SBIG STXL 11002 with AOX
Paramount ME
LRGB
Total integration time: 20hr
Location: El Sauce, Chile
Software: PixInsight, Photoshop