I've always wanted to do some astrophotography, but to get good results, you need to be away from city lights. What better place to do it than the Sahara Desert? On a trip to Morocco, I was staying in a tented camp near Rissani, so I had the shot planned out for one clear evening. I knew that the galactic center of the Milky Way (the brightest portion of it) would only be visible for about an hour, so I was ready to take the shot as soon as deep night occurred. I wanted an interesting foreground, and in the Sahara, there is - sand - lots of sand. I tried using some of the tents as a foreground, but I didn't like the result. I could see some really nice dunes, but they were a bit too far away to be interesting. So I decided to use a couple of palm trees that were growing nearby. The problem was that there was no moon out so there was no source of light to illuminate the foreground. I finally decided to combine two shots. I took one shot exposing for the foreground at twilight, and then later on I took another exposing for the Milky Way during deep night time. Combining the two images resulted in a shot I was happy with. By the way, it's cold at night in the Sahara.