La Palma in the Canary Islands

Roque de los Muchachos Observatory

Heart of the Milky Way.
Image acquired by Bernhard Schoelkopf.
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Looking east atop La Palma in the Canary Islands.
15 images. Exposure=32.0 sec each, f/3.5, ISO=1600, fl=18.0mm, 2:59-3:04am local time.
Images binned 4x4 in software and stacked using RegiStar.
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The Coathanger asterim (Collinder 399) is seen peaking above the secondary mirror structure of the Magic-1 telescope in the picture above.
Here are two full-size closeups of it---both the raw stack of 50 images and a deconvolved version to reduce the star trailing:

And here's a deconvolved close-up of the Double-Double epsilon-Lyrae:

Looking north.
30 images. Exposure=30.0 sec each, f/3.5, ISO=1600, fl=18.0mm
Images binned 4x4 in software and stacked using RegiStar.
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Photo same night by Edgar Klenske. Click image for full-sized version.

Movie (110 frames):

Star Trails.

On the way to the summit...