PERSEIDS METEOR SHOWER TO LIGHT UP THE SKY

Thanks to the new moon their will be little interference with the yearly Perseid meteor shower, if you plan to shoot some night photography expect to capture streaks from all directions through out the weekend Aug. 11 & 12th, regardless of time zone. NASA said as many 60 meteors per hour will shoot through the sky.
Meteor showers occur when Earth moves through a meteor stream. The stream in this case is called the Perseid cloud and it stretches along the orbit of the Comet Swift-Tuttle. The cloud consists of particles ejected by the comet as it passed by the Sun. Most of the dust in the cloud today is approximately a thousand years old.