The Perseids occur when the Earth passes through a cloud of space debris associated with the comet Swift-Tuttle, and is an annual event.
Hopefully tonight's skies will be clear as combined with a new moon the changes of seeing a splendid display of shooting stars are high.
The shooting stars will come in from the north east, the direction of the constellation Perseus after which they're named.
An added bonus is that the planet Mars should also be visible after midnight, as a red star above the eastern horizon.
![[Perseids Meteor (C)NASA]](http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/39937000/jpg/_39937468_met_nasa_203.jpg)
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