Loose Ends – Just some reprocessed images and things I hadn’t yet uploaded
Summer 2021 – Not much this Summer
5 minute process 
2 hour process 
Fall/Winter 2020
IC1805 – Heart Nebula 
M42 – Orion Nebula 
Heart and Soul Artificial Mosaic – HOO Palette – 2 images, 15hrs total exposure 
Tadpoles & Flame Nebula 
Jelly Fish Nebula 
Soul Nebula 
Rosette/Skull Nebula 
Spaghetti Nebula
Spring/Summer 2020
A quarantine concussion, smashed finger and record clouds and rainfall got things off to a very slow start this spring. Then I went and bought the OPT Radian Ultra Quadband filter, so it should be cloudy for a couple months now.
M16 Triad Ultra 
First night out in two months! 
Leo Triplet 
IC1396 IDAS NB1 Filter 
IC1396 Triad Ultra Gilter 
IC1296 H/H+O/O Pallete 
Pelican Attacking North America 
Crescent and Sadr H/H+O/O 
Crescent and Sadr RGB 
IC1396 H/H+O/O 
West Veil 
North America & Pelican 
Veil Mosaic 
Flying Bat with a hint of Squid 
Winter 2019/2020
To say that this Winter has been a disappointment would be one heck of an understatement. Clouds persisted in the Midwest every. single. night. from December 22nd through February 12th. Orion and Monoceros now drift to the west of the meridian and hide behind trees from me. The red fuzzies also disappear until May.
IC434 Horsehead 
M45 – Pleaides 
94% Moon 
NGC2244 
M42 
Seagull/Parrot
Fall 2019
Fall had to an interesting start in Chicago. Three inches of rain in early October followed by four inches of snow on Halloween.
Triangulum 
North America 
Elephant’s Trunk 
Andromeda 
California 
Rosette 
Soul 
Heart
Summer 2019
I didn’t accomplish a whole lot this Summer, but a new ZWO ASI071MC Pro and Hutech IDAS NB1 filter certainly helped me get a few images done. I can do a whole lot more in a lot less time with this great camera.
M16 – Eagle Nebula 
M8 – Lagoon Nebula 
M51 
M13 
Milky Way Attempt – Galena Illinois 
East Veil Nebula 
Western Veil Nebula
Galaxy Season 2019
It feels like it has been ages since I obtained any data. Winter 2018/19 was exceptionally poor in Chicago and the cloudy nights are stretching into Spring. Moving toward the middle of May, and all I have is some incomplete data sets begging for more integration.
M81 & M82 
Leo Triplet 
M101 
M51
In and Around Orion 2018
The constellation Orion offers up enough great objects to keep one busy through most of the Fall and Winter. This year I’ve been waking myself up at about 1:30AM to get a jump on all objects Orion. From mid-October into February I will concentrate on this area of the sky, working East to West from the Witch Head Nebula to the Cone Nebula and Christmas Tree Cluster in Orion’s neighbor Monoceros.
Fall 2018
While waiting for Orion to reappear at a more manageable hour, I captured a few objects from the front yard over the last couple weeks.
Summer 2018
Just some projects I’m working on. Early Summer has been spent in Sagittarius. We’re just getting into the first stretch of decent weather in quite some time. I’m confident I’ll actually be able to finish some of these with the good weather ahead.
May 2018
May was uncharacteristically cloudy, rainy and cold, until Memorial Day weekend, when it was in the 90’s and humid. I barely got out at all. I got partial data for M101, failed miserably trying to image Jupiter, added to M13, and took some Moon and constellation photos with a kit lens.
April 2018
March 2018
Starting off the month with clear skies, a full moon and an H-alpha filter. Then two weeks of thin clouds. Next, progressing into Galaxy Season.
February 2018
Half-way through the month and I have nothing, so I’ve been playing with data already acquired.
January 2018
And now for some incomplete images. January was a rough month.
November & December 2017
We’ve had terrible weather this fall and winter so far. I’ll be starting both of these over with better focus and an added coma corrector if it ever gets clear. These are before I modified my DSLR, and it shows.
September & October 2017
These are the first images I attempted.
Katorella Astro 