Leonid meteor shower:
Leonid 11/19/02, 12:37 pm GMT
On the advice of my attorney I set an alarm for 5am to shoot the sky, as NASA had predicted a huge meteoric turnout for the annual Leonid shower. I saw seven meteors in an hour of observing under a moonlight, light polluted sky with the eastern horizon obscured 30° by trees. This picture required extreme 'unsharp masking' to emphasize the meteor streak. Jupiter is in the center and Sirius at the top of this 8 second, f/3.3 full-frame fisheye exposure.
