Leonids ROCK!

So you didn't see too many Leonids last week, didja? Too bad; me neither. But some locations worked out pretty well. Like Arizona, at Kitt Peak observatory Mt. Hopkins. They have very dark skies there, and lots of telescopes. They also have an all-sky camera; a fisheye lens hooked up to a sensitive camera that points straight up. On November 19 it caught lots of meteors, and as you can see in the downloadable video. This video rocks. Things to note: 1) You don't really start seeing meteors in the video until after local midnight. That's because that's when the part of the Earth you're standing on is facing into the direction the Earth itself is headed into space. Sound weird? Think of it this way: when driving in the rain, the rain hits the front windshield but very little hits the back. You get hit with more rain if ...