The desert at night

[Kirbstone]

I'm impressed with your stellar nightshots, Moonshadow, especially as you took them it just a simple phone camera.

A clear sky is a prerequesite of course, together with balmy nocturnal temps. Here in Ireland we only have on average 39 clear nights a year, or one in nine, making sequential celestial observation quite impossible.
In 1845 The Earl of Rosse at Birr Castle, Co. Offaly built the largest telescope on Earth...72 feet long and its reflector mirror was 6 feet diameter. It held that position until 1914 and the Earl was first to observe and draw the spiral nature of distant galaxies.

Today that telescope is preserved in working order, just for historical interest, only.

Tom