The Perseid meteor shower is expected to give skywatchers a spectacular show Wednesday and Thursday.
But you need to get up early. Or stay up really, really late.
The annual meteor shower will peak on those two days, and this year’s waning moon will darken the sky, providing a brilliant view.
The meteor shower will be active between midnight and dawn and will appear to originate from the constellation Perseus in the northeastern sky, said Matthew Benjamin, a planetary scientist and education program manager at the University of Colorado’s Fiske Planetarium.
The shower builds gradually and can produce 50 to 100 meteors per hour. It’s best to get as far away from city lights as possible.
