Well, first Milky Way effort of the 2018 Season. So many things went wrong, I can't even begin to list them; but at least it was a balmy -5 Celsius; not -30C. Rudy Pohl and I got up at 0 Dark Thirty (0330) and set up. Clouds cleared out of the way and once the moon set at about 5AM we had about 30 minutes of shooting in the dark before dawn started creeping over the Eastern horizon.
 
For better or worse, here is my first effort. The composite image was stacked in a new way; edited in a new way...well..everything I did was new; so the slope of the learning curve is very steep.
 
I will be going back and re-editing, but I wanted to get something up.
 
Three planets were in a straight line, with Jupiter (that bright object with the diffraction spikes in the upper right of the image); Mars (a small yellow dot in the exact centre of the image); and Saturn on the bottom left (obscured by the solar structure).
 
To the right and slightly below Mars, the star Antares can be seen. It is the bottom of the Rho Ophiuchus Molecular Cloud Complex, from which strand of dark nebulae flow towards the Milky Way.
 
Shot with a Nikon D610; and a Sigma Art 35mm f/1.4 lens at f/2.8; and tracking with a Star Adventurer mini equatorial mount. Total integration is 24 minutes (48 x 30 second subs). Stacked in Pixinsight; and processed in Pixinsight and Photoshop CC.