Looking for Leonids

It was past 1am last night when I took this photo. I couldn’t find the Leonids (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonids) with my naked eye. So I zoomed in at 200mm, set my camera on 200iso, f5.6, bulb shutter speed, and let it expose for 2 minutes. I still did not see any meteors. But I saw stars… many stars of different colors! Not just blue, but also yellow and red and green! The stars in the foreground are moving from the rotation of the Earth, and the stars in the background are more prominent but too far off in the distance. Yet you can still see the flicker of their light, twinkling in the night.

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Those are stars right??? I don’t believe it’s digital noise. Those are stars!!!