Perseids

For once conditions were favourable to observe a meteor shower with the night moon-free, clear and temperate, so I had a few sorties outside looking skyward and was rewarded by seeing four or five meteors; I had hedged my viewing bets, timing my first session at about 22.30 to coincide with the expected passage of the International Space Station – and (unsurprisingly) it was bang on time as it moved serenely and brightly from west to south at about 30 degrees above the horizon, and near the end of its arc my first, and as it turned out my brightest, meteor arrowed towards it for a memorable sight.