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Rho Ophiuchi over Teide Caldera

In the early night, the Rho Ophiuchi molecular cloud rises above the caldera of Teide National Park. The nebula region marks the head of the Scorpius constellation. The image connects the geology of the caldera with the large-scale dust and gas structures of our Milky Way.

Shooting Data

Location	Teide Caldera, Teide National Park, Tenerife, Spain
Date	June 2024
Camera	Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark II astromodified
Lens	Samyang 135 mm f2.0 MF
Exposure	Image stacked from 100 exposures (ISO 640, f/2.0, 60 sec), total exposure time 1h 40 min, tracked with iOptron StarTracker Pro
Image Processing	DeepSkyStacker, Adobe Photoshop
Foreground	Captured seperately at a different time using a non-modified Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark II and the same lens