Starship Asterisk*

This is a composite of 48 Leonid meteors collected with my allsky camera on the peak morning of November 17.

My report is at cloudbait.com/science/leonid2009.html

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

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

It's a pretty cheap setup, not more than a few hundred dollars. It's a little bit in need of updating, but here are the details.

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

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.