These are not only my first-ever piggyback astrophotographs, this is also my first ever attempt at meteor photography. Hope you enjoy!
A Leonid passing through Canis Major. With the Canon, exposure 7 minutes.
A Leonid cutting the winter milky way in half. With the Canon, exposure 7 minutes.
Three sights that were common during the 1998 Leonids - two bright meteors, and a train being distorted in the upper atmosphere. With the Pentax, exposure 7 minutes.
Though there is a Leonid in the image on the left, the interest of these photos is the rapidly distorting train left by a bright but brief Leonid. With the Pentax.
I observed the Leonids on the 16th, 17th, and 18th of November 1998, from a dark sky site in the countryside southeast of Sierra Vista, Arizona. I also observed meteors in 1999, 2000, and 2001, but didn't bother with the photography.
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