The warm summer invited photographers out into the night for some stargazing.
Hoping to capture the Perseid meteor shower or the Milky Way on camera, photographers flocked to Southern California's beaches and deserts to find just the right spot.
Here's what our readers saw when they turned their lenses to the sky.
Owen Yano
Laguna Beach
Owen Yano has spent the past few summers trying to capture as much of the Milky Way as possible.