A couple nights ago when I had to let the dogs out to pee I saw the sky was really clear, and amazingly I actually had the ambition to try and take a shot.  After 10 min. of stumbling around the house (at 3:00 AM) going “WTF? Where the hell did I leave my tripod?”, I managed to get a couple captures.  At full size, it’s pretty grainy and I don’t think I got the inifinity focus quite right, but at Web size it doesn’t look too bad.  I’m happy as a first attempt.

Milky Way from the deck