# 018 Human looking at the stars during Perseids with the Milky Way in the background Photo by Giles Laurent

- By: Giles Laurent
- Date: Taken on 1 August 2022, 02:58:07
- Classification: Photograph
- Credit line: Own work, from gileslaurent.com
- Museum: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:018_Human_looking_at_the_stars_during_Perseids_with_the_Milky_Way_in_the_background_Photo_by_Giles_Laurent.jpg)
- Rights: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)
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A human, aligned with the Milky Way, looks at the stars from Oeschinensee (Switzerland) during Perseids in search of shooting stars.