The Milky Way started rising a little before 2 AM...this was taken at 2:45. Moonrise was happening at 5 AM, so a short window to make the most of it. Nice part about the wee hours of the morning is that our Earth shadow blocks out the Sun's reflection off of the plethora of artificial satellites wrecking the astrophotography shots. At the post dusk and pre-dawn time slot ...it's light streak heaven in every long exposure image captured. By 4:45 they were back. Single exposure just under 3 minutes.

Canon T7DSLR camera with a Rokinon 24 mm lens, MSM star tracker, Profoto tripod, intervalometer.

Resized down from 32MB to 9MB, removed smaller star with dust and scratches filter, removed color noise with Topaz DeNoise software.