First Attempt at the Milky Way

This was my first attempt at any kind of astronomy shot. The first image is straight from the camera, just resized and the second is edited in Lightroom. Any advice or tips would be appreciated.

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These are beautiful, I miss the stars!

Nice shot, where did you take these?

Thanks for the comments! These were taken in the desert in central Washington.

Nice, and I see you even have an aircaraft flying through the shot.