The night sky in the Smokies

I have never had much luck at getting a halfway decent night shot of the sky with our camera, mainly, methinks, because I never took the time to use a tripod. Well on this night, with no city lights to "contaminate" the sky, the view deserved to be captured . Using the camera pre-programmed night setting and a tripod kindly lent by my daughter-in-law Christa, I got a good shot from the back porch at the cabin. The illumination in the foreground is from the cabin.