Panau Nui Nightscape

The Winter Milky Way over a Petroglyph field boardwalk in the Hawaii’s Volcanoes National Park. The summer Triangle is setting in northwest (left) and Orion is rising on the right. Both red and green airglow are also evident in the sky as well as the Volcanic red glow of Kilauea Caldera on the right. The Big Island of Hawaii has over 70 rock art sites with thousands of images. Photographed here is the richest petroglyph field on the island known as the Panau-nui Pu’u Loa. Click on the second photo to see selected petroglyphs superimposed on this image.