The Perseid meteor shower occurs every year between July 17 and August 24, with the peak around August 9-13.
Made of tiny space debris from the comet Swift-Tuttle, the Perseids are named after the constellation Perseus, because the shower seems to come from the direction of the constellation Perseus.
I saw about 2 dozen meteors and after several attempts to photograph a meteor, success. I pointed my camera to the northeast horizon and took a long exposure. The meteor is the vertical line in the lower left corner.
A close-up view of the meteor. Due to the Earth's rotation during the long exposure, the stars are shown as short lines pointing in the same direction. This meteor is a vertical line that originated from the direction of the constellation Perseus.
The long straight line on the right of the photo was an airplane. A close-up shows the line as a series dots caused by the planes flashing marker lights.
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