APOD 4.2-The Milky Way Over Tenerife

This amazing image of the Milky Way Galaxy band in the sky over Tenerife is actually a compilation of several enhanced photographs of the panorama. The half-circle shaped band is the disk of the Milky Way's spiral galaxy. Earth is inside of the spiral disk, so the band appears in a circle around the planet. The red tinted ring underneath the band of stars in Barnard's Loop. Inside of the arch, the waxing moon can be seen along with opens star cluster, the Pleiades. The photo also shows the Spring and Winter constellations of Vela, Puppis, Canis Minor and Major, Hydra, Perseus, Auriga, Orion, and Casseopia.