Perseids meteor shower

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Meteors from the Perseid shower streak past stars above the Los Padres national forest in California, where the weather was better than in the UK. Photograph: Mario Anzuoni/Reuters

The advice was to try to block the moon from sight so the light reflected from it would not disturb the view of the Perseids meteor shower. But for much of Britain the moon was not the problem, itself obscured by the swathes of cloud which disappointed many stargazers.

Twitter, where an online meteor watch has been organised by the Newbury Astronomical Society and the International Year of Astronomy 2009, was a buzz discussion of clouds but scant mention of seeing any actual meteors.

There were a few lucky stargazers in Edinburgh and Dundee among a minority tweeting their delight at sightings but from Bristol to Manchester amateur astronomers were continuing to hope for a break in the weather before the peak period of the shower ends at 4am.

The phenomenon, which happens each summer as the Earth's orbit takes it through debris scattered by the tail of Comet Swift-Tuttle, had been keenly anticipated and even caused Google to change its logo for the day.

Here in London, there appears to be nothing to see. Are you having a better night of it elsewhere?

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Did anyone get a really good view of this?

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I completely missed it.

It was super cloudy on the peak day. I was looking forward to it too, I've never seen a meteor shower.