[APML] southern Milky Way from Spruce Knob

I know the east coast folks are tired from all nighters! I got around to playing with this image from August new Moon. I was originally setup to do CCD, but the wind was just too much on top of Spruce Knob. I looked at the pipe nebula and thought I was nuts for not doing medium format film. I wish I had taken the time to drift align. This is my best, but I am hoping to better with a trip to New Mexico next spring. I combined two E200 exposures of about 40 minutes. I pushed two stops and the grain was much more noticeable than without. I actually played with using a Hydrogen alpha filtered image I had taken from moderately light polluted skies to enhance the reds, but I didn't think it was much better. I hope to have some images from Cherry Springs. My slide processing takes a full week. They do a great job, so I will wait. The atmosphere starts to fade out the contrast at the bottom of the image. Hope the color looks OK. I like to preserve a natural look without pushing the contrast too much.