Credit & Copyright: Malcolm Park
(North York Astronomical Association)
Explanation:
Leonid meteors
rained down on planet Earth this week, the annual
shower of dusty debris from the orbit of
Comet
55P/Tempel-Tuttle.
Leonids streak through this
composite night skyview from a backyard observatory
in southern Ontario.
Recorded with camera fixed to a tripod, the individual
frames capture the bright meteor activity
throughout the night of November 16/17, about a day before
the shower's very modest
peak.
The frames are registered to the fixed field of view,
so the meteor trails are not all aligned to the
background star field recorded that evening when
Orion stood above the southern horizon.
As a result, the trails don't appear to point back to the
shower's radiant in Leo,
situated off the left edge of the star field frame.
In fact, some trails could be of Taurid meteors,
a shower also active
in November, or even sporadic meteors,
including a bright fireball with its reflection near the horizon.
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