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Target Details
Supernova 2019yvq is located in the Galaxy NGC4441 which is 62 million light-years from Earth. At the time of capture SN2019yvq was at magnitude 15.

This image also features a number of other galaxies, too many to label all of them so I have only labelled the most noticeable.

Capture Details
Data captured 15th March, 2020.
37x 180s through Luminance filter.

Equipment Details
Skywatcher Quattro 200 CF
NEQ6 Pro
Atik 460EX Mono

Processing Details
This image was processed in Registax, Pixinsight & Lightroom.
Calibration and Stacking in Pixinsight using Batch PreProcessing
Automatic Background Extraction - To remove gradients
Histogram Transformation - To stretch the image.

Export as JPEG and import into Lightroom.

Increase Contrast (+25)
Reduce Shadows (-35)

Export final JPEG for upload.