Southern Ways and an Angel
When you travel from south to San Pedro de Atacama, Chile, the highway leads you across the mountainous part of the Atacama desert. Staying about 55 km (32 miles) south from Chajnantor Plaetau, home of the ALMA observatory, you can spot the summit of the volcano Miñiques. Surrounded by very slightly illuminated clouds by the setting young Moon, it makes perfect foreground for the Milky Way with wonderful emission nebulae close to the southern sky pole. This way is ostensibly directed the highway, getting your view trough the front car window to the majestic Large Magellanic cloud. As a bonus, an isolated gravity waves appeared in airglow just below the dwarf galaxy.
2020 Christmas note: If you take a closer look at this image, you can spot a large angel flying over the Miñiques volcano, northern Chile. Especially in these times, the symbol angel is so welcomed. We have Christmas time, where according to Evangelium the angel was the one who convinced Three Kings not to go back to Jerusalem and say about Jesus Christ to Herodes. Also, angels are symbols of care, which was needed this year so much due to the pandemic. Carina Nebula can be also taken as a symbol a bit as it is place of new-born stars. Same as symbol of Christmas celebration. The image was taken 4 years ago, but I believe the display in it is most actual now.
This image was captured during ESO UHD expedition on 10 April 2016. Used Canon 6D Baader IR modified, Samyang 24 mm, f2.8, ISO 10000, 18x15s panorama from tripod.
