I know the limits of my equipment, but I was going to do it anyway.
The milky way on a weekday night in CNY with a 35mm equivalent lens on a micro 4/3 sensor … I wasn’t sure if it was too big an ask. I can’t get find ultra dark skies; there is light pollution anywhere within a 30 minute drive from my home (and I had to work the next morning), 35mm is kinda narrow for night skies and requires a shorter exposure to keep the stars sharp while while the sensor size is already limiting the amount of light available to create my images.
But still … the skies were going to be clear and I had scouted a location with an unobstructed view; I could find something with foreground on in the future, when I was confident that I could figure out how to capture and image without wasting my time (and precious sleep).
I expected to spend only 15-20 mins out in the field; I spent 2 hours, even driving to a second location on a whim.
The results were better than I had imagined they would (or could) be, even with my limited resources.