LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – Stargazers were able to see the height of one of the year's main meteor showers this past week.
The Perseids – which radiate from the constellation Perseus – are active until Aug. 26, but were expected to peak in the early morning hours of Tuesday through Thursday, when a moonless sky improved viewing conditions.
John Jensen and Elizabeth Larson of Lake County News headed out to the Rodman Slough area on Wednesday and Thursday and captured some images of the meteors streaking across the sky, which are shown in the photos above and below.
NASA reported that the year's remaining meteor showers and their peak times are the Orionids in October, the Leonids in November and the Geminids in December.