I've been collecting data on this since the 18th of June. It's 100% a shot out the dining room window, no outdoors for this one. Some details from Wiki...
"NGC 1097 is a barred spiral galaxy about 45 million light-travel years away in the constellation Fornax. 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. NGC 1097 has a supermassive black hole at its center, which is 140 million times the mass of the Sun."
Capture details: Bintel 8" F4 Newtonian, Baader MPCC MKIII, HEQ5 Pro unguided, 683 x 30 seconds, Pentax K-5.
It took 6 hours for DSS to stack the 683 RAW DNG frames. The cats had to be locked in my room while taking it as they would sit on the window ledge and stick their noses down the telescope tube lol.
Astrobin for the full field.
http://astrob.in/203308/0/