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I had read that this meteor shower would compare and rival a massive shower back in 1833 when the sky was filled with thousands of shooting stars.  So I studied up on how to capture an image of this celestial event, set my camera to the proper settings, got my tripod out, stayed up late and got up early, snapping what I am sure was thousands of frames or at least felt like it.  I have had only a few hours sleep, I couldn’t rest for dreaming about getting that perfect award winning shot and I now am working on the strongest pot of coffee that I have ever made. 

With that being said, it was an alright display, not quite the fireworks that I was hoping for and luck was not on my side, for of all the photos taken and for all the shooting stars that I saw in a totally different direction from my camera lens, I was only able to come up with these two images.  And I almost overlooked the first image of the shooting star because it was barely in the frame.  No mistaking the first as a shooting star, but the second image, I feel strongly that it was a satellite.  It was way too high and moving much too fast to be a plane, but this bright streak of light never dimed, that is until it crossed in front of me and slowing vanished toward the horizon.

So there you have it, my show for hours of work, thousands of images, standing out in the cold dark of a November night, proving to my neighbors that I have really lost my mind, getting just one “for sure” photo of a shooting star and one “not so sure what the heck it was” photo.  But, I love a challenge and even though I didn’t capture the “award winning” shot, I most certainly will be out fumbling in the dark with my camera the next time I hear that there is going to be another meteor shower.