saidel42 Loc: NJ

I live in Cherry Hill, NJ, about 10 miles from Philadelphia. Skylight is a problem. Still, Comet Leonard got me up at 5AM for the last 5 days (minus 2 of them with 100% cloud cover) and I was determined to see it. Of course I had those great close-up images of comets in mind and thought, just look up. So I used Stellarium to figure out where it should be and completely missed it the first day. The second day I was a bit closer and thought I had a smudge in the right area, but this picture from yesterday blew me away. As I annotated, in the upper right is the star Arcturus. The lower red arrow in the middle points to Comet/2021 Leonard, but surprises in the sky, the red arrow in the upper left points to a meteor. I know numerous smaller meteor showers are around (so points out Stellarium) but from where I was located, I am surprised I caught this. And Stellarium did not identify it as a satellite.
Details: Nikon D7100, 70-300 zoom at 70mm, f4.5, 10 sec exposure, ISO 6400. In PS(CS3ext), I had to majorly adjust the 'Levels', but that was all. Looking forward to the 12th (conjunction of Jupiter, Saturn, Venus and Leonard at 5:30PM).

guardineer

Nice work. You thought me to back off my zoom. Easy to find in the binoculars but not so much at 500mm x 1.5dx.

saidel42 Loc: NJ

Yes, I could not find it with my 150-600 zoom and the funny thing is that the first early morning, I did not back off enough and just missed.