I'm pretty sure I got milk!..as in celestial ''milky'' clouds. Last night while giving my Border Collie his last play of the day around 23:30 EDST on a clear non light polluted night I noticed a milky streak across the stars to the East above me. ''Well, Shadow. It's time to set up the Nikon! This doesn't look like clouds in the atmosphere, buddy. We better capture em!" Yeah, I can hardly wait for September when Orion's Nebulous comes into view!
Here's a few I got last night with my D700 and Nikkor 20-35mm f/2.8 D Exposure time was 25 and 20 seconds. 07-13-2020
20 seconds
Much the same except the stars show more clearly through the tree in the longer exposure.
Now, I did have some doubts as to weather the cloud was celestial or in the atmosphere in front of the stars until I saw the same formation tonight at the same time, however it moved more directly overhead in 24 hours time like the phase of the moon. Again a clear night with little light pollution the camera came out again to shoot the milky cloud in the stars, (guess that's why it's the Milky Way).
This photo is a 20 second exposure with light painting of the tree top. 07-14-2020
15 second exposure.
Another 15 second exposure
I do like this old Nikkor lens and don't feel as though I'm missing a thing apposed to the new 17-35mm f/2.8 AF S version. It's a great Nikkor classic that still works as well as it ever did!