Apologies to Don McLean for stealing his line

14mm 30sec at f2.8 3200 ISO

Image taken at approx midnight. Sodium light illuminating RHS lake side and colour corrected to give illusion of daylight. New Moon phase. Milky Way galaxy low & setting in west horizon.

Next month will be last opportunity to photograph the Milky Way at night then the wait till April 2016 until can be seen in Southern Hemisphere at night.