We've got a meteor shower this weekend. The Orionid meteor shower takes place tomorrow night and will be best viewed after the first quarter moon sets in the west. That will happen close to midnight. And if skies are clear, we'll have a great show. You could see as many as 20 meteors in an hour of viewing. Look towards the eastern sky. The radiant, the place where the meteors appear to originate is above the constellation Orion's head; and to the left of the bright red star Betelgeuse. This is an autumn favorite.

Some of the meteors shooting across the sky are brilliant. They might leave a short lasting trail.

The shower contains the remnants of Halley's Comet, a repeating comet that passed through our sky in 1986 and won't return until 2061. The shower is created for us when our Earth passes through what dust particles remain in the comet's elliptical orbit around the sun. This is an annual event and we can count on seeing a few meteors a few nights before and after Saturday morning's peak time. The best time to look is around 2 a.m. Sunday morning.