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Not feeling the whole copy and paste from Wikipedia vibe, so here's some pretty space shit from a couple thousand lightyears away.

This one is a little goofy, but I'm sick of trying to process out noise and gradients, so here you go - Eagle and Omega in one. It's about 6 hours worth of data, shot over the wonderful city lights of Chicago!

Galaxy season and sanity break over. Summer friends and sleepless nights have returned. M17, the Omega Nebula in kind of an HOO presentation. This is part of a larger image including M16, but I'm having a hard time dealing with gradients. That's what happens when these targets rise above the bright city lights of Chicago.

Here is a tamer and wider version of my 4 hours on the Monkey Head Nebula #ngc2174 from last fall. I think I see a badger or wolverine head pointing to the right in the O3 portions. Galaxy season is a little boring for those of us with only a wide-field setup, but come mid May it's time to GET UP at midnight to start imaging (and go back to sleep while the rig does it's thing). My Saggitarian friends are making a comeback for Summer and many long but rewarding nights are ahead!

Just some more reprocessing of last year's data. This is the Sadr region with some of the Butterfly Nebula and the Crescent nebula. I'm looking forward to this coming back around this Summer for a larger mosaic of the area.

About the Site

Katorella is a mashup of my daughters names that I had originally made up for a bike that I never built. They adopted the name, but I stole it back for my astronomy endeavors.

I’ve been casually into Astronomy for decades, but more recently I’ve taken a serious interest. I’ve been really imaging since 2017 from just outside Chicago, which creates challenge after challenge. I want to prove that you can do this from anywhere without spending your whole life’s savings.

I believe that anyone who wants to make their own art from hidden treasures in the sky should be able to go for it!

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