Just returned from a 3D2N astrophotography trip to Mersing suggested by a bunch of awesome folks who followed me to Mount Bromo last month. I arrived in the late afternoon to collect all the room keys and didn't do much after that as the skies were cloudy until late night. The folks in the second car departed at 6.30pm and they finally arrived at Mersing town roundabout at around midnight. So I grabbed a quick shot of the rising Milky Way above the newly discovered tree before I went to link up with them. The sky condition on 28 June 2014 was partly cloudy but knowing that the skies will clear after sunset using my astronomy tool, I led the group to a location to capture the Milky Way but what happened during the shoot was unbelievable. About 1.5 hours into the shoot, we were treated to a spectacular lightning show by Thor and the below image is a result of stacking 12 photos from my time-lapse sequence, 11 shots of lightnings and 1 shot for everything else. We were prett...