"... Tuesday August 11. ■ Last-quarter Moon (exactly so at 12:45 p.m. EDT). ■ The Perseid meteor shower should be at its strongest late tonight. But the Moon (in Taurus) rises around midnight, and its light will interfere somewhat during the prime meteor hours from midnight to dawn. So you might do best before then, from about 11 p.m. through moonrise. Perseid Vic August 2020. The radiant point of the Perseid shower gets fairly well up in the northeast by 11 p.m., so the meteors become more frequent. The higher a shower's radiant, the more meteors are seen all across the sky. ..."
Sky and Telescope
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