Yosemite Day Trip and Trying Astrophotography

I took a spontaneous day trip to Yosemite. I drove for 9 hours in one day and spent around 4 hours in the park itself. I wanted to go my birthday weekend, but it would be snowing then, so I decided to go a week earlier. 

While at the deli for lunch, I met another girl taking a solo trip for her birthday. We decided to go see the Sunset at Glacier Peak together. Glacier Peak is closed now due to the snow and will remain closed through 2022 for road renovation. We really got in at a clutch time. I feel like coincidences are God's way of remaining anonymous. 

I met another traveller with a professional camera, and he was nice enough to let me copy his astrophotography settings, even though he was on a different camera. 

(20 sec shutter, f/1.8, 1000 ISO, tripod: gorillapod)

The two red lines are airplanes.

The bright cluster of stars below are the Pleiades.

Somehow I was able to get a couple shooting stars.

I'm a cheapskate and I don't have Adobe Lightroom/ Photoshop. Thankfully, Samsung Smartphones released a new feature that works like the gaussian blur feature, and I was able to "fix" my hair with a couple finger strokes on my S21 smartphone. I didn't do any more "photoshop".
 

Here is El Capitan. Taking photos during the day is rough due to the high contrast exposures. I'll be back Yosemite.