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La Palma, Canary Islands

A nice time-lapse movie of the beautiful national park of La Caldera de Taburiente, on the island of La Palma, Canary Islands. Almost 300 digital still-photos at 10 seconds intervals (45 minutes real time). (6 MB)
Panoramic photo over Roque de los Muchachos. Make sure to resize image to original size in your browser!
Sunset at the William Herschel Telescope.
Strange formations inside the crater.
Me and some friends hiking through the crater (in the river bed).
Me swimming in the river inside the crater. The water was extremely cold.
Typical postcard view of Santa Cruz.
View of the mountains.
Some German astronomers observe Sun spot AR10634.
Me by the optical table. And no, that's not a Photoshop'ed image. My finger is lit by Sun light reflected back by a filter.
Prof. Göran Scharmer of the ISP, inspecting the 1-meter lens of the SST (it needed cleaning).
Mats Löfdahl is working on the H-alpha finder telescope, which broke down.