This is the earliest in the year I have ever captured an image of the Milky Way. While it is not the best image I have captured of the Milky Way, I wanted to show that it can be captured early in the season here on the easy coast. This was a 2hour and 10 minute drive from my house to Barnegat, NJ. Photographed the night sky for three hours. left at 5:15am to get back home by 7:30am.

Nikon D750, with a Tamron 35mm lens, f/1.4, and a Slik Tripod.

I captured 11 images of the Milky Way and then another 9 with the lens cap on. I edited the first 11 images in LIghtroom with minor adjustments. I then exported out those 11 images and the 9 dark images with the lens cap on out to JPGs. I then imported those 20 images into Starry Landscape Stacker to stack the photos to bring out more detail and reduce some of the noise in the photo.