Published August 13, 2010

If you couldn’t see the Perseid meteor shower — supposed to be visible from parts of Greater Boston — you might have had better luck driving to a mountain road south of the Macedonian capital, Skopje. That’s what AP photographer Boris Grdanoski did last night. He captured this long-exposure image:

A meteor is seen sparking along the Milky Way while entering the earth's atmosphere, during the Perseid meteor shower early Friday, Aug. 13, 2010, in this long exposure picture taken on a mountain road just south of the Macedonian capital, Skopje. (Boris Grdanoski/AP)

Anyone see it? David Aguilar, of the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, said it was supposed to be “spectacular.”