A Kitt Peak Leonid at 1026 UT
Credit:
Night Sky Live Project,
Michigan Tech.
Reports of the 2002
Leonid Meteor Shower
are coming in from across the world.
Preliminary indications have the shower as less active than
last year but with an
impressive peak seen through 1030 and 1100
Universal Time visible from much of North America.
Observers reported many meteors at the peak arriving in groups.
Pictured above is one such meteor from the peak
caught earlier today by the
Night Sky Live
continuous camera at
Kitt Peak
National Observatory in
Arizona,
USA.
A memorable event of the 2002 Leonids was when the town of
Mitzpe Ramon in
Israel dimmed its lights to allow better
imaging of Leonid meteors from
Wise Observatory.