The annual Perseid meteor shower begins its most illustrious sequence in the wee hours of Sunday August 11th (that would actually be after midnight Saturday, right?) Don’t worry if you don’t read this until Sunday morning. You haven’t missed the best show of this shower, which will get even better between 2:00AM and just before dawn on Monday and Tuesday when the darkest part of the northeastern sky will be streaked with an average of 50 meteors an hour.