A Furious Sky over Mount Shasta

The sky is angry with Mount Shasta. During eruptions of the enormous volcano in California, the spirits of above and below worlds fight there. The drama can be seen in this deep sky picture. The stars of Scorpius and Ophiuchus can be seen in the sky above the snow covered peak. The bright orange star Antares and the colorful rho Ophiuchi cloud complex can be seen just to the right of Mount Shasta. A static earth image was taken during the blue hour and a two panel panorama was taken later that night with the same camera and from the same location. A few million years from now, some stars in the rho Ophiuchi system will explode as supernovas.