Perseid Meteor Shower Peaks 2020 AUG 11-12

[CentaurZ]

The annual Perseid Meteor Shower is already underway. The Perseids are usually the finest shower of the year. Normally at the peak more than sixty meteors per hour may be seen by some sharp-eyed folks. The Perseids are debris from the periodic comet 109P Swift-Tuttle.

The shower is expected to peak during the night of 2020 AUG 11-12. Its radiant is in the constellation Perseus. That is the direction toward which the meteor tails point, but the meteors are equally likely to appear anywhere in your sky.

For observers north of the tropics, the meteors appear virtually all night, although most prolifically during the hours before dawn. This year the waning but wide crescent Moon near the shower’s peak may provide minimal interference during the predawn hours.

 Descriptions of the shower or perhaps even lucky photos would be welcome additions to this thread. 

[maw lod qan]

I hoped the weather would be clear for last nights peak, but just before sunset another round of thunderstorms developed.

Got up at 1am, thinking Jupiter and Saturn would be closer to the zenith only to find leftover high scattered clouds.

I went in and out, finally deciding to sit around 5am, hoping for a Perseid. The Moon was quite bright but to my surprise I saw 10 or 15 meteors, a few quite bright with a nice trail.

I think if it had been clear and no Moon, this would have been the best shower I watched in the past couple years.