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PIC BY Matt Bigwood /Geoff Robinson Photography 07976 880732. Pic shows the Perseid meteor shower at Wotton-under-Edge, in Gloucestershire last night (Aug 10) Photographers across the UK have been capturing the first pictures of the Perseid meteor shower as it reaches its peak tonight (Tues). The annual meteor shower can produce between 50 and 100 shooting stars per hour but conditions for seeing the spectacle are expected to be difficult tonight with cloud, rain and thunder forecast for some areas. Matt Bigwood managed to get a good view of the display at Wotton-under-Edge, in Gloucestershire at around 11pm last night (Mon). "I saw four or five meteors with the naked eye, but they actually showed up a lot better in the photos," he said. "I also managed to get some photos showing the meteors near the Milky Way." Each year the meteor shower is active between July 17 and August 24 as the Earth's orbit around the Sun passes through the cosmic trailing from the tail of Comet Swift-Tuttle, which last passed through our vicinity in 1992. SEE COPY CATCHLINE First pics of Perseid Meteor shower

CREDIT: Matt pinner/Rex Shutterstock. Editorial use only Mandatory Credit: Photo by Matt pinner/REX/Shutterstock (5827471a) Milky Way and Perseid meteor shower over Hatchet Pond Milky Way and Perseid meteor shower over Hatchet Pond, Brockenhurst, Hampshire, UK - 10 Aug 2016

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A composite image made from 726 photographs taken over three hours from midnight showing the rotation of the earth around Polaris, the North Star, in the night sky over Ashton Windmill, Somerset ahead of the Perseid meteor shower, which is due to reach its peak between Thursday and Saturday. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Wednesday August, 10, 2016. Photo credit should read: Ben Birchall/PA Wire

[UNVERIFIED CONTENT] Star trails over a light polluted Sutton Courtenay (a small village in Oxfordshire). A meteor from the Perseid meteor shower is visible.

The Perseid Meteor Shower seen over Orcombe Point, Devon. The meteor shpwer is one of the most spectacular shows of the year, with meteors being seen from the 17 July through to the 24 August. The peak of the display is between the 9 – 13 August, when there will be between 80 and 100 meteors per hour, unfortunately at the peak this year a bright moon will make viewing difficult. The meteors are the debris from the Comet Swift-Tuttle, the radiant of the display is constellation of Perseus.

PIC BY Andrew Hawkes /Geoff Robinson Photography 07976 880732. Andrew Hawkes took a picture of the Perseid meteor shower at Grimwith Reservoir in the Yorkshire Dales. Photographers across Britain have captured an array of incredible pictures of the Perseid meteor shower as it reached its peak last night (Wed) and the skies cleared. Skygazers in the north of the country managed to get some good shots of the shower which coincided with a new moon for the first time since 2007, creating perfect viewing conditions. The annual meteor shower can produce between 50 and 100 shooting stars per hour and put on a dazzling display. Jan Knurek managed to get a picture of the perseids over Evesham in Worcestershire early this morning (Thurs). Whilst photographer John Phelan got a picture above an old tin mine between Morvah and St Ives in Cornwall in the early hours (Thurs). Photographer Stephen Cheatley managed to get a fantastic photo of the Perseid meteor over Mount Teide in Tenerife yesterday (Wed). Each year the meteor shower is active between July 17 and August 24 as the Earth's orbit around the Sun passes through the cosmic trailing from the tail of Comet Swift-Tuttle, which last passed through our vicinity in 1992. SEE COPY CATCHLINE Latest Perseid meteor pics

epa05475900 A picture taken with a slow shutter shows a meteor moving past stars in the night sky over lake Neusiedlersee near Moerbisch am See, around 70 km southeast of Vienna, Austria, early 12 August, 2016. The Perseid meteor shower is seen every August when the Earth passes through a stream of space debris left by Comet Swift-Tuttle. EPA/LISI NIESNER

FILE - In this early morning, Aug. 13, 2013 file photo, a meteor streaks past the faint band of the Milky Way galaxy above the Wyoming countryside north of Cheyenne, Wyo., during a Perseids meteor shower. On Thursday night, Aug. 11, 2016 into early Friday morning, the Perseid meteor shower is expected to peak with double the normal number of meteors. Scientists call this an outburst, and they say it could reach up to 200 meteors per hour. (AP Photo/The Wyoming Tribune Eagle, Blaine McCartney)

epa05473100 A shooting star (L, top) is seen on the night sky during the perseid meteor shower in Jankowo, near Poznan, 11 August 2016. The first half of August is traditionally the best time to look out for meteors called 'shooting stars', or perseids which are the leftover dust particles of a comet tail associated with comet Swift-Tuttle. EPA/LUKASZ OGRODOWCZYK POLAND OUT

PIC BY Alec Jones/Geoff Robinson Photography 07976 880732. Picture shows the Perseid Meteors shower by the Holy Island of Lindisfarne,Northumberland on August 9th 2016. The Perseid meteor shower takes place each year through July and August and is the result of particles falling from the Comet Swift-Tuttle, which orbits the sun every 133 years and was first seen in 1862. The trail of particles forms meteors, or shooting stars as they are also known, which heat up as they enter the Earth¿s atmosphere creating tails of light across the sky. These specific meteors travel at a speed of 132,000 miles per hour and are called Perseids due to the way in which they appear to streak away from the Perseus Constellation

 

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