The Perseid Meteor Shower takes place in the wee hours of Sunday and Monday morning. The best time to look is from 11 p.m. Saturday and Sunday night to well before dawn.

This is the most favored shower of the year, not because it is the biggest, but because the temperature outside is friendlier. And even if you don’t have energy to go outside during those hours, there is a pretty good chance you’ll see at least one meteor shooting across the sky if you are looking.

Meteors are small dust particles, no bigger than an eraser at the end of a pencil, that speed into the earth’s atmostphere at terrific speed. They burn up and in most cases never make it to the ground.

The Perseid Meteor Shower is the remnants of Comet Swift-Tuttle. Each year at this time, the Earth traveling in its orbit goes through the dust trail orbit of that comet. The shower is so predictable some scientists measure its precise peak moment. You can see Perseids any hour of the night through the coming weekend.

Imagine the earth moving through space and imagine it entering and moving through a benign cloud of dust. Astronomers report that viewers can see as many as 50 meteors in an hour. This observer has never seen that many. But this is a super weekend. The moon and its brilliance will not interfere with a dark sky.

All we need is a good clear night.