This lovely view from northern Spain [ http://www.ishango.…], at Cape Creus on the easternmost point of the Iberian peninsula [ http://visibleearth…], looks out across the Mediteranean and up into the stream of the 2002 Leonid [ http://leonid.arc.n…] meteor shower. The picture is a composite of thirty separate one minute exposures taken through a fisheye lens near the Leonids' first peak, about 4:00 Universal Time on November 19. Over 70 leonid meteors are visible here, some seen nearly head on, with bright Jupiter positioned just to the right of the shower's radiant [ http://liftoff.msfc…meteors/Showers.html ] in Leo. Perched on the moonlit [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] rocks at the bottom right, the photographers' dog seems to be watching the on going celestial display [ http://www.skylook.…] and adds a surreal visual [ http://albertlea.k1…image06.html ] element to the scene. What's the dog's name? Leica, of course.
