Catch the Leonid Meteor Shower

Stay up late or get up early and catch the annual Leonid meteor shower next week. A few dozen "shooting stars" will light up the constellation Leo in the early morning hours. The meteor shower activity, which observers expect to be visible Sunday through Nov. 19, is expected to peak on Tuesday, from 3:30 to 5:30 a.m.
This year’s display, which peaks Nov. 17, may produce more than 500 meteors an hour. This is not enough to rate it as a meteor storm, which averages more than 1,000 meteors an hour.
The Leonids are a prolific meteor shower associated with the comet Tempel-Tuttle. The Leonids get their name from the location of their radiant in the constellation Leo: the meteors appear to stream from that point in the sky.