Starset Over the Continental Divide

On the first night of a backpacking trip in the Front Range Mountains of Colorado, I wanted to catch the stars and Milky Way core set over the US Continental Divide. I waited patiently for the moon to set behind the Continental Divide around midnight before I gathered this 195 second integration of exposures. I was especially happy to capture the stillness of that late summer night through the starry reflection in this high alpine lake.