This annual summer event will peak on August 12 this year.
While viewing is best after midnight and far from city lights, the proliferation of meteors (an average of 65 shooting stars per hour) in the northeast sky promises some exciting viewing.
Many scientists believe that over one hundred million meteors enter earth’s atmosphere each day. This is the largest meteor shower, second only to the Quadrantids in January. Most of these meteors vaporize in the upper atmosphere. On a rare occasion, a chunk finds its way to earth.
Watching this display of lights provides another opportunity for nature observation.