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By Angie Phillips
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Late July into August is treat time for stargazers, depending on weather conditions of course.
The Perseid Meteor shower delivers some of the brightest meteors of the various displays throughout the year.
Usually, the Perseids start about 16 July and peak on the 11, 12 and 13 August, when there could be as many as 100 meteors in an hour.
They then taper away towards 23 August.
Terry Moseley, from the Irish Astronomical Association, said the display is caused by the earth moving into the debris from Comet Swift-Tuttle.
The earth passes through the debris every summer and the streaks are caused as the particles burn up as they hit the earth s atmosphere.