A Late Leonid from a Sparse Shower
			
		
		
		
			The 
2003 Leonids Meteor Shower contained relatively few meteors.  
As expected and unlike the 
last 
few 
years, 
the Earth just did not pass through any dense 
particle streams left over by the Sun-orbiting 
Comet Tempel-Tuttle.  
Preliminary reports had the peak 
meteor rates only as high as about one relatively faint 
meteor a minute even from good locations at good times.  
Pictured above is one of the brighter 
Leonids of 2003, caught by one of the continuously 
operating night sky web cameras (CONCAMs) of the global 
Night Sky Live project.  
The 
fisheye image shows the night sky from 
horizon to horizon above 
Mauna Kea, 
Hawaii, 
USA.  
The image is annotated with several bright stars and planets.  
Note that this meteor, as do all Leonids, appears to 
emanate from the constellation Leo, 
labeled on the upper left.  
Although the peak of the 
Leonids this year was on November 19, 
this meteor flashed through the sky the next night.