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Image processed in StarryLandscapeStacker with 10 sky images stacked to reduce noise in the sky. The ground was from one of the single imagesSingle image with an old MFT camera and a reasonable fast f2 prime lens wide open
The purple colour may have been from Aurora Australis but I did not notice it at the time of shooting.
This image was taken in a Bottle 1 sky. In the southern hemisphere, the Milky Way sets parallel to the horizon from September through early November where it disappears from view until February as it is above the horizon during the day and rises after sunrise, then sets before sunset.

The blue at the bottom of the pix is from a power bank battery. A little black electrical tape will fix that next time.
This image was from the near 3hr sequence of a timelapse of the Milky Way setting
Elon's StarLink constellation of satellites is now so numerous that it looks like scribbles in the sky when played back
Soon there will be many more LEO constellations in the night sky from Russia, China, US, India & Europe that it will be difficult to remove them from an image.