Friday, February 15, 2013

Leonid Meteor Shower

(Updated June 14, 2023)

To Catch A Falling Star!!!

By B. Marie Jarreau


 

 Leonid Meteor at point of ignition 
across the handle of the Big Dipper. 
                     Photographed from atop Wright's Point, 
Harney County, 

Burns, Oregon. Nov.19, 2001

For my two teenaged daughters and me the historic Leonid Meteor Storm provided  
a magical night of  "raining meteors!"



Leonid PUBLISHED!


Smoke Trail that resulted after ignition



                                                                                                          

Star Trails circle Polaris


B. Marie Jarreau