[John H K]

The absolute LAST thing I'd want to be fiddling with during a major Leonid storm is a telescope...I realize there are people that experiment with telescopic studies of faint showers but the last thing I'd be doing during the Leonids is using a telescope.

[Ron C.]

Just an ordinary wide angle camera lense should do the job, I'd wager - and LOTS of film, or data-storage space 8^)