A composite 8mm All-Sky photograph shows an estimated -12 magnitude Leonid meteor as it streaks across the sky at 1:45 CST on the morning of November 17, 1998 at Powell Observatory near Louisburg, Kansas, located about 30 miles south of Kansas City. Nearly as bright as a full moon, this bolide (fireball) meteor lit up the area as it passed overhead. More than a dozen other bright Leonid meteors also photographed with the same lens, from the same location on the morning of November 17th can be seen in this image. East is located at the bottom of the photograph with west at the top. The constellation Orion in the southern sky can be seen in the middle right of the photograph. The constellation Leo, from which the meteors appear to come from, is located at the bottom of the image, just rising above the trees. Members of the Astronomical Society of Kansas City estimated more than 200 meteors per hour were seen from the observatory grounds between 1 a.m. and 3 a.m. c.s.t.
Photo by Vic Winter & Jennifer Dudley/ ICSTARS Astronomy.
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