In the photo, you can see a composition that I had already planned during the daytime, so I knew I absolutely couldn’t miss it. This time I won’t go on at length about what crazy weather and wild adventure @capturetheatlas and I had on the island of La Palma. The telescopes we visited during the day are truly incredibly large and worth seeing. We also had the privilege of getting a close-up tour and learning a bit more about the CTAO telescope — the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory, which you can see on the right in the photo.

This is also my first somewhat more serious photo where I devoted more time into HaRGB processing.

CTAO is a large-scale global project to build a new generation of Cherenkov telescopes dedicated to the study of the Universe in very high-energy gamma-ray. It will be the largest, most sensitive and advanced instrument ever built for gamma-ray astronomy and the first ground-based observatory of its kind open to the world-wide astronomical and particle physics community.

In the north, the location of CTAO is at the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos, of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), on the island of La Palma (Spain). In the southern hemisphere, CTAO is located in the Paranal Observatory of the European Southern Observatory (ESO), in the Atacama Desert (Chile).

Meteors registered into panorama using Auriga Registar software

Lenses used for capturing meteors: TTArtisian 11mm, Sony 14mm, Sigma 20mm.