That’s a beautiful, simple night-sky shot. Too bad about all the light pollution from Honolulu, though; there’s so much of it, it almost looks like sunset. Must not have been so bad when they built the observatory.
Did a little googling around about light pollution since I was thinking about it. It’s disheartening to read that planetariums, e.g. Griffith Observatory (which I was lucky enough to visit shortly before they closed for renovations a few years ago), are becoming the only places where many people can fully experience what the night sky should look like… and that perhaps as many as 1 in 5 people can’t see the Milky Way. It’s far from the worst problem this planet faces, but sad, anyway…that simple joy, that sense of wonder, should be accessible to everyone.
But hey, that’s another reason to appreciate Denny’s posts; at least here the sense of wonder is alive and well. 
There are no photos that can capture what a starry summer night in the country is like. We have some areas here that are legally designated as dark sky areas (they’re a long drive from any city, of course) where people have agreed to not have useless lights pointing upward at night, closed businesses don’t have signs blazing for nothing, office buildings aren’t lit for no-one, etc.
But really, looking up at the Milky Way is incredible. There is no way you can find any constellations, the sky is just too full of stars, and they are all so bright. If there is no moon out, the stars can light your whole night. There are even shadows under everything, the stars are so bright. If you are in a wooded area, so that all your horizons are obscured, and there is no chance of any other source of light than the stars above, it is truly spectacular!
djm
On a clear night I can stand in my garden and see stars right down to the horizon. If I look north I can see a glow above Bude, four miles away, but that scarcely spoils the star-view. When we first moved here from London, 20 years ago, it was so dark that going outside at night scared me! 
I know what you mean! I remember coming back to the cottage on an overcast night with friends. When we turned the the car off and jumped out, the cottage, which was only 10’ away, suddenly disappeared. We each literally crawled around in several directions in the dark till one of us bumped into the cottage and was able to eventually find the door, and then the lights to bring everyone else in. 
We were too shocked to have thought to find the car and turn the headlights back on. It was just too strange to turn off the car and have the whole world disappear. We weren’t ready for it.
djm
Heheh. I love that pitch blackness now. A few years ago I used to go to a regular Monday night session (in Boscastle as it happens!) and I was always dropped off on the way home at the top of the farm lane, so I had to walk half a mile to my house which is in the middle of nowhere. I got to enjoying hugely just doing without my eyesight for ten minutes on an overcast or moonless night and letting my imagination run riot - I liked to think that benign goblins or fairies were hiding behind every tree! On moonlit nights it was even more ghostly. Going out into the pitch dark is one of life’s great joys. Beethoven was inspired to write the great slow movement of his string quartet Op. 59 no 2 by doing just that.
Sounds almost like a sensory deprivation therapy session … 
djm