"Tybee Pier Blackout II" was photographed in May of 2024.
It is very rare to be able to photograph the Tybee Pier along with the Milky Way during a blackout. While blackout conditions are ideal for Milky Way photography, they don't happen too often when all the other conditions that need to be met for this type of photography are met. Normally for this type of photography you need clear skies during the summer months during periods of nighttime when no moon is in the sky and you need to be in a dark location. When you throw in a blackout, the dark location will become even darker.
On the Bortle scale which is a measurement of light pollution, a 9 on the Bortle scale is very bright. A 1 on the Bortle scale is very dark. Normally, Tybee's darkest locations are at a Bortle 4 with the lights on. During the blackout, this would have dropped to at least a Bortle 3, if not a Bortle 2.
The last time I was able to photograph this was in May 2017, almost exactly 7 years to the day. See "Tybee Pier Blackout"