(and I did a better job later: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/wbaiv/7785846084/">www.flickr.com/photos/wbaiv/7785846084/</a>) I had to do some digging but this is, without a doubt, the constellation Sagittarius, as Ted had already written by the time I figured it out! My 'break in' point was a nice photo at Wikipedia, seen here at full size: <a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Under_the_Milky_Way.jpg/731px-Under_the_Milky_Way.jpg" rel="noreferrer nofollow">upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Under_t...</a> The "teapot" shape of Sagittarius and the arc of Corona Australis are clear even in the small size picture in the Wikipedia article: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milkyway" rel="noreferrer nofollow">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milkyway</a>. More detail at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sagittarius_constellation_detail_long_exposure.jpg" rel="noreferrer nofollow">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sagittarius_constellation_deta...</a>.

Here's a nice map at the same perspective: <a href="http://www.astro.wisc.edu/~dolan/constellations/skycharts/sag.gif" rel="noreferrer nofollow">www.astro.wisc.edu/~dolan/constellations/skycharts/sag.gif</a>

Google gives my location here as 36.87301,-121.822777; 36.87 degrees North, 121.82 degrees West. Local time was between midnight and 1:00am.