Perseids
date : Aug 10-15 (Aug 12)
duration : 4.6 days
rate : 66/rate
RA   : 3:04
dec  : +58 

Once considered the finest and most 
reliable of the major showers, the Perseids
are slowly declining from a peak during 
the 1970s. Rates may exceed 100/hour. 
There is a wide variety of meteors, the 
fainter ones being white of yellow, 
brighter ones, green, orange or red. 
About 1/3 leave trails. Occasional fireballs 
often ending in bursts. This is
a very good photographic shower.