During the peak of this year's Perseid Meteor Shower, I hiked a couple of miles into Monument Canyon in Colorado National Monument...

Perseid Descending II

Colorado National Monument

During the peak of this year's Perseid Meteor Shower, I hiked a couple of miles into Monument Canyon in Colorado National Monument to the base of Indenpence Monument for the show. It did not disappoint! Though I was unable to capture all the meteor activity, which included a fair number of streaks across the sky near the Milky Way, I did capture a few descending down the length of the center of our galaxy. Photo © copyright by Chris Eaton.