Milky Way Above Cusco

The starry night sky from the Southern Hemisphere captured at a high altitude of 4120 meters, above a small lagoon of Qoricocha in the top of the mountains, in Cusco, Peru. The core of Milky Way galaxy was visible high at south west while summer triangle was rising in the opposite direction. Not far away, close to the horizon and immersed in the reddish beautiful airglow, was rising the Andromeda galaxy M31. Above Milky Way core and along the ecliptic path crossing the zenith, we can find the faint glow of a Gegenschein, in the opposite direction of the colorful nebulosity of Rho Ophiuchi. Experience this scene in an immersive 360° VR view.