Rural areas with dark skies offer the best viewing opportunities, away from city lights.

Ohio residents can visit designated dark sky parks like Geauga Observatory Park and Fry Family Park for optimal viewing.

Best viewing times are after midnight and before dawn, but experts suggest going out as early as 10 p.m. ET.

The Perseid meteor shower — one of the best of the year, according to NASA — treats stargazers to plentiful bright meteors streaking swiftly through the atmosphere and colorful exploding fireballs. But the peak of the celestial event this year was competing with the bright moon.

A waning gibbous moon just days after a full moon compromised the period of maximum activity for the Perseids, according to the American Meteor Shower Society . Those conditions were expected t

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