Reminder: Don't forget about the Leonid Meteor Shower this Saturday night/Sunday morning. If you're in the San Francisco area, watch the Eastern skies from 1am to 2:30am for a spectacular show with hundreds or thousands of meteors per hour. Other areas in the US, adjust your timezones accordingly. It'll be pretty simultaneous for North America.

This photo, taken during the 1999 Leonids Shower, is just amazing. This year's is forecast to be the biggest shower 'till 2099.

Incidentally, Lorenzo Comolli, the photographer who took this picture, has quite a collection of astronomical photographs, including a fascinating movie recorded earlier this month of Saturn being occluded by the Moon and reappearing on the other side (warning, it's in Div-X format, so it requires a special codec (linked to on the site)).

If you can't make it out of your city, then just stay up late and look skyward anyhow and you're sure to see some streaks, as long as it's not cloudy.