Hint Of Coming Perseids

With prospects for a clear sky the next two days leading up to the peak early morning (August 12) of the Perseids meteor shower looking dim due to forecasts for cloudy skies, I took advantage of the cloudless early morning of Saturday, August 10, 2013. This meteor streak was the best of the three I witnessed in about an hour and a half vigil. It was captured from our back deck on Brentwood Drive NE in Cedar Rapids, Iowa looking northeast around 4:27 AM. It is a 15-second exposure at f/1.8, 250 ISO and 35mm focal length.