Holy Moly, just got in a groove and shut down the bars and chased the drunks home....
Well figuratively.... I surrendered to the pillow at 3:30 AM.
I blame part of that on Orion showing up late to the party, then a brief hide and seek around the top of the power pole.
So the night started off with some M&M's, M-32 and M-110. I just wanted to see what I could pluck out of the area around Andromeda. And NGC 1027 which looked inviting as a cluster in the Heart Nebula. I was disappointed I couldn't seem to pull the red out of it.
After a while, it lead me off to Pleiades to sample some darker nebula. Which is as hard as pulling hens teeth, or plucking frogs hairs. But by the time I was tired of that, Orion was soon to arise. So I set off in Stellarium to track Orion, and wandered off to watch the News. Or L.A.'s rendition of what they call news. Mostly interested in the fires...
Ta-Da! Orion creeped up through the Light Pollution to my ENE direction around Midnight. Gottcha! I started fiddling with imaging. I was looking for a lot of short exposures, so I settled on 5 second exposures, and let them build. That process is boring enough that I woke up to 450, 5s images. Woopee! I saved them and went after the Flame and Horse-head Nebula's with Alnitak.
I gathered a bunch of varieties, and I even was thinking of you! So I saved some FIT and TIF files in case anyone might like to play. Download and try your hand. FITs, TIFF, and JPG's to enjoy.
So here's mine, and you are welcome to try some of my files in case your conditions weren't working for you. Feel free, and have fun!

I went to bed early last night...