Thanks for the advice ! I don ' t have Lightroom or Photoshop I currently just use gimp and snapseed since they ' re both free . But I totally see what you mean , also a wider lens would be better when I took a shot with a wider lens it seemed much much less grainy even at iso 6400 . I ' ll try to take pictures with ISO 1600 next time I go out though and see if I can add exposure in post . it seems no . matter how much I work on shots below iso 1600 in post I can ' t get the milky way to show up . <| sep |> We use them a lot for balance . Not quite vestigial , imo . <| sep |> tbh this kind of thing pisses me off just because it ' s so poorly thought out . Nearly all of my ancestors are from Scotland and didn ' t come over until the late 1800 s or early 1900 s and immigrated to the North East coast , so no , not even my ancestors stole land from Native Americans , had slaves , etc etc etc . Just because someone is white and lives in America doesn ' t mean their ancestors did those things . And even if their ancestors did , you can ' t in your right mind blame the person , they have no control over who their ancestors are and what they did .