Bundle up, grab a chaise lounge and go
outside to watch a celestial light show.
The annual Leonid meteor show is expected to peak at 2 a.m. Saturday but occasional meteors should be visible before and after that time.
The best view will be in the eastern sky about midway between the horizon and straight up.
About 10 to 15 meteors an hour should be visible at the peak. Viewing conditions are nearly perfect in Alabama with cloudless skies and very little moonlight.
There may be a brief, second peak just before midnight Monday.
The meteors are tiny pieces of debris from Comet Temple-Tuttle that orbits the sun every 33 years. As the Earth passes into the comet's trail the debris enters the atmosphere and leave burning trails across the sky.
The Leonid shower gets it name because it seems to originate in the constellation Leo.