Greg Miller, a photographer who lives in Middletown, knew the Perseids meteor shower would be peaking overnight on Aug. 11. When he arrived at Little Stony Point at 10:30 p.m., the northern sky was cloudy — “not a promising start,” he says. But the clouds thinned and at 12:08 a.m., the first meteor appeared — “a beautiful fireball that took four seconds to cross the sky and left a glowing vapor trail that lasted another 10 seconds.” At 1:30 a.m., a faint greenish glow appeared: the Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights). “At 2:12 a.m., the intensity suddenly grew to what you see here,” with Breakneck at the right, Miller says. “It was visible to the naked eye, something I have never witnessed in the Hudson Valley.”
