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Aurora and Perseid meteors. In the early morning hours of August 12, Jim Mazur captured a red aurora along with some Perseid meteors from his backyard in Killingworth. The first two images show the aurora and a single Perseid. The third image is from the following night, and shows about 25 meteors, mostly Perseids plus a few sporadic ones. This is a composite image obtained by taking about 720 12-second exposures and searching them for any meteors, bright or dim.