Thank you for sharing your awesome astro photos, @daxon! Did your friends (or/and u?) stand still for 25"? And where does the pink light come from? A flash or a flashlight?
Unfortunately there is way to much light smog where I live (Vienna, Austria), but I'll give it a try too, next time I'll visit the countryside... :)
Yes we stood there in the freezing cold for that long, for multiple shots. But all good because of the display above us. The red/pink light is from the little head lamp we were using (another person asked, copy paste). Very low power but the camera sucks up so much light from it.