A road trip from Ankara to the Mediterranean [
http://iam.classics…] coast southeast of Antalya, Turkey found clear skies and splendid scenery for astrophotographer Tunc Tezel's viewing of the 2001 Leonid meteor storm [
http://science.nasa…ast22jun99_2.htm ]. There he captured this dream-like image of a fireball meteor near the horizon's twilight glow, reflected in calm ocean waters. Lights from coastal dwellings and nearby islands are seen in the foreground with brilliant Sirius [
http://antwrp.gsfc.…] shining as the brightest star in the heavens, visible in the constellation Canis Major [
http://www.allthesk…constell.html ] at the upper right. Many enthusiasts [
http://leonids.hq.n…] who made special trips to view [
http://www.icstars.…] this November's Leonids were [
http://antwrp.gsfc.…] rewarded with similar spectacles of the fireball-rich storm. Airborne astronomers [
http://leonid.arc.n…] too had much to be thankful for as Leonid observations from a specially equiped aircraft flying at 40,000 feet produced bountiful data on the chemical composition of these dust grains from a comet's tail [
http://www.astrosoc…leonids.html ].
Explanation
A road trip from Ankara to the Mediterranean [
http://iam.classics…] coast southeast of Antalya, Turkey found clear skies and splendid scenery for astrophotographer Tunc Tezel's viewing of the 2001 Leonid meteor storm [
http://science.nasa…ast22jun99_2.htm ]. There he captured this dream-like image of a fireball meteor near the horizon's twilight glow, reflected in calm ocean waters. Lights from coastal dwellings and nearby islands are seen in the foreground with brilliant Sirius [
http://antwrp.gsfc.…] shining as the brightest star in the heavens, visible in the constellation Canis Major [
http://www.allthesk…constell.html ] at the upper right. Many enthusiasts [
http://leonids.hq.n…] who made special trips to view [
http://www.icstars.…] this November's Leonids were [
http://antwrp.gsfc.…] rewarded with similar spectacles of the fireball-rich storm. Airborne astronomers [
http://leonid.arc.n…] too had much to be thankful for as Leonid observations from a specially equiped aircraft flying at 40,000 feet produced bountiful data on the chemical composition of these dust grains from a comet's tail [
http://www.astrosoc…leonids.html ].
Explanation
