2008 Orionids Shower
The annual Orionid meteor shower occurs when debris from Comet Halley intercepts the Earth at a high velocity. This debris stream is somewhat diffuse, so we see activity for several days on either side of the peak.
This is a composite image of 303 meteors collected on the evenings of October 17/18 (29 events), October 18/19 (48 events), October 19/20 (44 events), October 20/21 (107 events), and October 22/23 (75 events). A heavy snowstorm prevented recording any data on October 22/22. Because the images were collected over many hours, the radiant of the shower is spread out and not apparent. There was quite a bit of interference from the Moon this year, as well as thin clouds each night. The image has had the Moon removed from it, except for a single frame containing a beautifully haloed Moon.