Went up to Desaru coast with family and spent two nights there. The first night past 12AM saw my wonderful times enjoying astrophotography.
This was the third trip to this location of three in a row within the span of 1 week. And the moderate light pollution has become a little pain to my photos -- guess it would be worth some extra trip due north to escape the sky glow -- but that might not happen until late May?
This is a composite image but my favorite.
The core region extends to Altair.
Always like to add interesting foreground to the Milky Way image.
And so be it like me doing stupid things.
And I guess 20mmF1.8 has become the staple lens for shooting MK in this location.
It also does star trails nicely. (And this photo gives some sense of how much light pollution you would expect from a small town 30~40KM away -- see the leftmost portion of the horizon).
The pre-dawn hours saw the sky turned quite cloudy -- making it difficult to capture nice views of the planets alignment -- especially the Venus-Jupiter conjunction. But that was some rare astro event I never want to give up.
