In August of 1993, I bought a used 55mm f/1.2 Nikkor lens at a camera shop in Boulder, Colorado and of course tried it out for some wide-field astrophotography.  This shot shows the northern summer Milky Way in Cygnus along with the adjoining constellation of Lyra ~ this was probably a 20 minute exposure to capture the red colors of the North America and Pelican Nebulas, along with the complex region around Sadr in the center of the Northern Cross.  Using the lens wide open also unfortunately resulted in the bloated stars.  Unannotated image, Back