Showing posts with label Perseid meteor shower. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Perseid meteor shower. Show all posts

Friday, August 19, 2011

Perseid meteor shower

Last night whilst listening to a concert at Villa Fabri in Trevi I saw a Perseid meteor shower. My first ever.

Every August the earth passes through the debris of the Swift-Tuttle meteor and these light up the sky as a meteor shower.

They are so called as the point they appear to come from is in the constellation Perseus.

My thanks to Wikepedia!