UKAstroNut's video: Perseid Meteor Shower

It’s that time again where the night sky will be lit up with so called shooting stars. This week the Perseid meteor shower dominates the night sky, where you can see over 1 shooting star every minute in the most active meteor shower of the year. So what causes the Perseid meteor shower, where did it get its name and what’s the best way of seeing it? Twitter: https://twitter.com/UKAstroNut Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UKAstroNut Website: http://www.ukastronut.co.uk Image credits: "Leonids-1833" by Adolf Vollmy. - Via http://star.arm.ac.uk/leonid/Meteor-Shower.jpg. Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Leonids-1833.jpg #/media/File:Leonids-1833.jpg "Perseid meteor and Milky Way in 2009" by Brocken Inaglory - Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Perseid_meteor_and_Milky_Way_in_2009.jpg #/media/File:Perseid_meteor_and_Milky_Way_in_2009.jpg "Swift-Tuttle" by NASA. http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/images/Swift%20Tuttle_708X450.jpg "PerseusCC" by Till Credner - Own work: AlltheSky.com. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PerseusCC.jpg #/media/File:PerseusCC.jpg "Leica Trinovid 8x20 BC" by Martin Möller - Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 de via Wikimedia Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Leica_Trinovid_8x20_BC.jpg #/media/File:Leica_Trinovid_8x20_BC.jpg "Geminids" by Asim Patel - Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Geminids.jpg #/media/File:Geminids.jpg "Leonid Meteor" by Navicore - Own work. Licensed under CC BY 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Leonid_Meteor.jpg #/media/File:Leonid_Meteor.jpg "Comet holmes and Geminid121307" by Brocken Inaglory. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Comet_holmes_and_Geminid121307.jpg #/media/File:Comet_holmes_and_Geminid121307.jpg