Physics and astronomy students from a college consortium in California mill around their cameras the night before the 2017 North American Solar Eclipse. They have flown for several hours to arrive at the campgrounds beneath the shadow of Mt. Hood, Oregon, where the eclipse totality will be fully visible. The clear night sky provided an opportunity to photograph the stars, and the students were quick to whip out their DSLR's, tripods, and star tracker mounts to capture images of deep space. They spent half the night constantly adjusting and aiming their equipment in order to better capture the ancient light of stars hundred of light years away. While humanity remains grounded upon our terrestrial home, far away from the unreachable stars, the thousands of photographers and amateur astronomers are our pioneer explorers and investigators into the depths of the universe.