This 180 degree image was taken on August 4th at 2:30pm. Images were taken with a Nikon D7100, hand held, with a great little underrated nikon lens 18-55mm 3.5-5.6G

I stitched 74 raw/nef images at 6000 x 4000 resolution each with photoshop cs6 photo merge option for a final cropped image size of 41819 x 13471.

I made a few small color adjustments and an unsharp mask filter to give it some pop...

Enjoy!

Interesting feature in the image, you can see on the left side of the crater wall alot of dust, I just happened to capture a large rock fall in the sequence of shots taken...

The Johnston Ridge Observatory is also in the image. If you look carefully at the mountain range across from the volcano you can see it.

There is a GPS observation unit of sorts sitting on the huge rock mound/bulge where the steam is venting, something I never knew was there before... It's probably to watch for expansion of the rock mass and how stable it is or is not...

Mt. Rainier and Mt. Adams (hidden behind clouds somewhat) can be seen in the distances...