This week, stargazers and everyone alike will be treated to the Leonid meteor shower, which only happens every middle of November during the year. The night skies will be filled with a dazzling array of shooting stars, so watch out for Tuesday night until Wednesday night.

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The Leonids will be appearing in the eastern night sky near the constellation of Leo or The Lion where the meteors will be visible across the skies. According to Astronomy Magazine, a range of up to dozens of meteors can be experienced every hour during its peak, however, the Leonids are pretty fast moving, where they enter the Earth's atmosphere at incredible speeds of 158,000 miles per hour, which is considered to be the fastest moving meteor shower.

Typically, the best time to watch any meteor shower is after midnight and into the wee hours of the morning until dawn, where the Leonids are no exception to this. NASA also advises that the waning crescent moon will soon disappear, making the Leonids shine brighter than ever.

The best show will be the during the peak hours of Leonids, specifically the mornings of November 17 and 18. If this time is too early for some stargazers, sunset is also a good time where the eastern skies is the place to start, in between the middle of the skies and bottom one third of it. The moon will set at around 10 P.M. local time where around 2 A.M., becomes the best time to look overhead. After 2 A.M. stargazers should be able to set their viewing halfway up in the western region of the skies.

In order to see the brightest meteors, the ideal place would be away from light pollution especially city lights. As the eyes adapt to the darkness in about 10 minutes, the eyes will experience better vision during the night after 45 minutes which means that the shooting stars will become brighter and more obvious as the darkness continues into the night.

Meteors are actually tiny, pea or sand type of debris that is falling from a comet's tail, as Earth's orbit moves into the comet's path. For the Leonids, the debris originates from the Tempel-Tuttle comet where they enter the planet's atmosphere, burning up and transforming into dazzling "falling stars".

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