If you have, a bright meteor flashing through the night sky should be a familiar sight. The meteor, by chance, seems to leap from the constellation's brightest star Sirius , near the top right. In the foreground is the beautiful desert scenery of Joshua Tree National Park. Reports of bright meteors from this year's Leonids are already wide-spread, with the 1999 shower predicted to peak around 0200 UTC on November 18 at rates of several hundred to thousands of meteors per hour. Awe inspiring as they are, the Leonids pose no danger to earthbound skywatchers.
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