Fathers Day Eve, A night out with the boys...

Isn't it interesting how a "Night Out With The Boys" changes with time. On the evening of fathers day I received a phone call from some friends who were headed out to another friends house with reasonable dark skies. I packed everything thing up (or so I thought) and met up with "La Gang" and we headed off to Walters.
Upon arriving I found several things. One, my 12V battery had died during transport, I suspect the drive shook particles off of the plates and shorted out a few cells since a test at home had shown 13V and I now had 4.x volts. I had left both my analogue (read wind up darkroom clock) and digital timers at home. After severa;l other obstacles were overcome I did a very quick polar alignment and started shooting some Supra 400 with my Pentax MX and a 28mm lens at f/2.8.
Here are the best shots from the night.


Cygnus Milky Way Region
Scanned with SprintScan 35 Plus
Levels and curves adjusted in PhotoShop
Exposure ~10 minutes
 

Following some suggestions received, here is the same photo processed differently
 

Central Milky Way
Scanned with SprintScan 35 Plus
Levels and curves adjusted in PhotoShop
Exposure ~5 minutes
 

Again with some suggested changes to the processing.
 
 

And when the mount jammed this rather interesting Star Trails shot was the result.
Again the exposure was ~5-10 minutes. Nothing like star trails with a star cloud as the background.