Bill Burke, Padraig and I went to Wupatki picnic area last night and enjoyed some truly dark skies. Here is a composite of the Milky Way rising over a nearby cinder cone taken without a light pollution filter for a change. This is a 2 x 2 minute stack shot with a modifies Canon 6D at ISO 3200 and Canon 50 mm f/1.8 lens at f/5.6.

Klaus Brasch