Meteor Streaking Past Leo

Here's a closer look at the meteor which streaked past the constellation Leo a couple of nights ago, which you can also see in the video I posted yesterday.  I had heard that there might be a meteor shower coming from Leo, so I had my camera track the constellation for a couple of hours, shooting almost continuously.  While I did catch this bright, colorful and long meteor streak, it's long because it has a flat trajectory, not coming at us from this point in the sky.  So it's actually from a point far across the sky.

Ten minutes earlier I caught smaller meteor trail with a similar trajectory, so if they're related they may have come from the same source, which appears to be near the Big Dipper.  That's where the radiant point for the Quadrantid meteor shower which peaked on January 3 is, so they're probably late Quadrantids.  They're a day or two later than the Quadrantids are generally accepted as being active, but try telling that to these little chunks of comet dust.

I wrote a blog post on my pursuit of the potential meteor shower from Comet ISON this week: 
Meteor Shower from Comet ISON?
http://activesole.blogspot.com/2014/01/meteor-shower-from-comet-ison.html

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Meteor adjacent to the constellation Leo, January 13, 2014. It’s probably a late meteor from the radiant point of the Quadrantid shower, not the piece of Comet ISON which could have been radiating from the constellation Leo.

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