I read about the earth passing through the Comet 209P/Linear dust trail and the prediction that it would to be a meteor storm with potentially up to 1000 meteors an hour. Of course I decided to grab my camera and plan a trip out into the Everglades to find a nice dark site to witness this once in a lifetime meteor shower. Unfortunately, the meteor shower was a complete dud. I might have witnessed 5 meteors the whole night. However, one of the meteors was the best single meteor I have seen to date. It lit up the sky like a fireball and remained very vibrant for at least 10 seconds before exploding as it neared the horizon.
The bad news was that I had my camera pointed in the completely opposite direction. Either way it was still fun to get out of the house and go see the stars and the milky way. I took a couple of images of the milky way before heading home around 4:00 AM.
