This is about the end of the Milky Way season and the night skies are heading into the fall and winter star season. Orion is on his way. I took the shortest trip to the closest dark sky and had a 2 hour session. Lots of campers in the hills and plenty of ground and air traffic. You can see a dozen aircraft, a satellite and perhaps one meteor in this 2 and a half minute exposure. I made the most of the session despite the inconveniences. When Antares set below the horizon I packed up and called it a night. i had a 5Am alarm to send me on a day adventure down in southern Utah for fossil hunting. That trip was amazingly fruitful and enjoyable! Blue skies, solitude, Cretaceous period fossils galore!

Sony a7s camera, MSM Rotator star tracker, 24mm Rokinon lens, tripod, intervalometer.

Denoised, contrast, color enhancement.