Halema'uma'u Crater
Stars in the southern sky glow above Halema'uma'u crater in Volcano National Park, Hawaii. Halema'uma'u, home to Pele', Hawaiian Goddess of Fire, is a sub-crater inside the larger Kilauea crater. Only after the sun sets the glow from the eruptions inside are visible. On a cloudy day, I waited for hours and was rewarded with a break in the clouds, to reveal countless stars in the Scutum-Scorpius-Centaurus-Vela part of the Milky Way. It was not a transparent sky though, which was good to bring out the reddish glow from the eruption.
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© (c) Chandra Mouli 2014
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