Starship Asterisk*

Could someone please explain what the small, oddly-shaped and oddly-colored (kinda like a purple Mexican sombrero) structure in the upper right-hand corner of the Nov 19/09 APOD might be? Thanks.

I'm no fan of the cloudy nights we had here.

[quote="apodman"]Cool. That's the kind of thing makes a boy want to go invest in some equipment.[/quote]
It's a pretty cheap setup, not more than a few hundred dollars. It's a little bit in need of updating, but [url=http://www.cloudbait.com/projects/allskycamera.html]here are the details[/url].

Cool. That's the kind of thing makes a boy want to go invest in some equipment.

[img]http://www.cloudbait.com/science/2009leonids.jpg[/img]
This is a composite of 48 Leonid meteors collected with my allsky camera on the peak morning of November 17.

My report is at [url=http://www.cloudbait.com/science/leonid2009.html]cloudbait.com/science/leonid2009.html[/url]

[b] http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap091119.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8367760.stm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4A61Xwc29cg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NY4kLNCaUXk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OB9GgFAghqs[/b]