A local photographer stayed up for more than six hours to capture hundreds of meteors streaking across the night sky in Salmon Arm.
On the night of Monday, Aug. 12, Tammy-Lynn Post took a trip down Salmon River Road to watch and take photos of the annual Perseid meteor shower.
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At the showerB次元官网网址檚 peak, a stargazer can see roughly 100 meteors an hour in dark sky locations.
Post started taking photos at about 9:30 p.m. and took the last photo around 3:30 a.m. on Tuesday morning. She then shared her photos to a Shuswap Facebook page explaining the streaks of light in the photos.
B次元官网网址淭he ones that look out of place kinda like scratches, those ones are the meteors. The rest are all stars,B次元官网网址� wrote Post describing her photos.
Named after the constellation Perseus, the Perseid shower is made of tiny space debris coming off the Swift-Tuttle comet.
Cameron.thomson@saobserver.net
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