Supernova in M-101

A supernova was discovered in the large face-on galaxy M-101 on May 17th, 2023 by Koichi Itagaki, and was immediately classified as a type II supernova. At its discovery, its magnitude was 14.9. This is the nearest supernova since 2014. M-101 lies 21 million light years from Earth. By the time I captured this image, the supernova had brightened to 10.8 magnitude, and was brighter than the nucleus of M-101. The supernova was given the designation of 2023ixf.
This image was taken on May 26th, 2023, and is a 1 hour integration of 2 minute exposures through the Celestron C-11 at f/6.3, using the Starizona .63x Reducer/Corrector III and the ZWO ASI 2600 MC Pro color CMOS camera operating at -10 degrees below ambient temperature and binned 1 X 1. Guided, captured and combined using Maxim DL5 Pro. Post-processed using PhotoShop CS2, Gradient Xterminator, StarShrink, DeepSky Colors, Carboni's Astro-Tools and NoiseWare.