Leonids Meteor 2001

November 18, 2001 Sunday morning.

Meteor is between Saiph and Rigel in the bottom of Orion. M42 is above the meteor and Betelgeuse is at the top of the image.

Minolta XD-11 35mm camera with 24mm, f/2.8 lense at f/4, 5 to 10 minute exposure, Kodak Gold MAX 800 print film, scanned by Oregon Photo when film was developed. Image processing was done with Paint Shop Pro 7.02.

The camera was mounted on a Orion Telescopes & Binoculars SkyView Deluxe EQ equatorial mount with an AccuTrack SVD Dual-Axis drive system (#7815).