A standard portrait of a person shining a flashlight directly into the starry skies is prevalent on social media and by doing so creates unnecessary light pollution to the dark site, thus ruining long exposures image by astrophotographers and pairs of already dark adapted, unaided eyes.This image was unfortunately taken under such occasion. It really isn't a big deal when I thought that a new picture can be shot in the next few hours of clear skies. But due to the rapidly changing weather in Malaysia, clouds rolled in less than 30 minutes, followed by hours of cloud gazing and waiting...
Equipment: Nikon D5300, 18-55mm kit lens, EQ3 Pro
Settings: 18mm, F3.5, ISO400, 180s + 60s exposure
Software: DeepSkyStacker, PS
