This weekend, the annual return of the Perseid meteor shower, will be seen just before the full moon hits its maximum brightness.

The Perseid meteor shower peaks in the overnight hours of Friday and Saturday (Aug. 12 and 13) so if you are a light show aficionado, these are the best schedule to spend the midnight outside the house.

It’s always advised by Astronomers that we can catch meteor showers around midnight because that’s when the earth’s rotation brings us around from being on the “backside” of the earth to the leading side in its orbit around the sun. Meteor showers occur when the earth, in its trip around the sun, flies through the debris path caused by a comet’s orbit.