>>2576942you either need very vivid night sky (i.e. clear, no light pollution, bright milky way, etc) or very dark foreground, or both.
in this case I was way tf out beyond the mountains in Australia and although I was at a campground where people had lights on as you can see, the night sky was so bright out there that even with lighting around the sky still stands out.
it's just a wide open aperture and exposed for 30s. the acceptable exposure time changes depending on your focal length, but at 10mm I could let it run a long time
