Published on Nasa SpaceWeather and SPACE.COM - and taken by myself. Also a Sky News Photo Of The Week #43. Forgot about that too. www.skynewsmagazine.com/pow/pow43.html Those that were attempting to watch Perseid meteors on August 12/02 had a bit of a distraction: an aurora lit up the sky which hindered meteor observations. Lance Taylor of Edmonton, Alberta was observing from the Edmonton RASC's Cooking Lake/Blackfoot observing area when this aurora suddenly developed shortly after 1:00am. Lance reports that although the aurora limited the number of meteors that could be seen that night, he still observed 48 Perseids. Lance used a Canon T-70 camera equipped with a 28mm lens set a f2 and took a 30 second exposure using Kodak 200 speed film.