Astronomy Picture of the Day 11-27-02

NASA ^ | 11-26-02 | Robert Nemiroff and Jerry Bonnell

[petuniasevan]

Astronomy Picture of the Day

Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.

2002 November 27 Leonids and Leica Credit & Copyright: Juan Carlos Casado and Isabel Graboleda

Explanation: This lovely view from northern Spain, at Cape Creus on the easternmost point of the Iberian peninsula, looks out across the Mediteranean and up into the stream of the 2002 Leonid 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 in Leo. Perched on the moonlit rocks at the bottom right, the photographers' dog seems to be watching the on going celestial display and adds an interesting visual element to the scene. What's the dog's name?

[petuniasevan]

Nice composition. Click on the credit and copyright link to see the photographer's website; there's a gallery of good astrophotography there.

If you click the "northern Spain" link, you will get this APOD in a Spanish language. Just not the one you took in high school. The language you see at that link is Catalan, spoken in the area of Barcelona. It has similarities to both Castellano (Spanish) and Provençal (language of southern France).

[petuniasevan]

[RightWhale]

What's the dog's name?

Leica, but what does the name mean besides the optics company? What does it mean in Russian?

[firewalk]

Thank you & Happy Thanksgiving

[trussell]

Beautiful!! Thank you.

Hope you have a Happy Thanksgiving!!

Blessings,
trussell

[BossyRoofer]

Great picture, We finally got a new computer! Looking forward to much more of my favorite site, APOD the place to be!