Milky Way on a warm and humid August night

I took 20 exposures, then using the ball-head mount, moved the camera slightly, then another 20 exposures, repeating the process until I had seven overlapping panels totaling 140 exposures to record as much of the south and southwestern sky as possible. The plants at the bottom of the photo are bushes; I set my tripod and camera low to the ground to use the plants to shield the lens from steadily encroaching urban light pollution. The "rule of 500" suggests 17 second long exposures for a 28mm lens and full frame camera but I used 20 second shots and by stopping down the lens from f/2.8 to f/4 still came away with reasonably sharp and round stars and minimal trailing. Gradually building ground fog and lack of a dew shield or lens warmer (which I forgot to bring) ended the effort.

Canon 6D MK II DSLR, 28mm prime focus lens (unknown Japanese manufacturer, cost almost nothing secondhand years ago), f/4, 140 exposures, each 20 seconds long, ISO 6400. Tripod with ball head mount, remote shutter release, red-light headlamp, mosquito repellant (absolutely essential).

Sequator and Image Composite Editor to stack and stitch seven panels of 140 frames together, then GIMP to sharpen, crop and boost saturation and deal with increasingly bad light pollution.