Tonight all you need to do is look up and watch for shooting stars, as the biggest meteor shower of the year will reach its peak between midnight and dawn.
The show will be spectacular, as the fainter meteors will stand out against unusually dark skies without a glare of moonlight, since the event is taking place during a new moon, contrary to last year, when the meteor shower was washed out by a supermoon, one of the biggest full moons of the year.
The annual Perseid meteor shower happens every August when Earth passes through debris left by comet Swift-Tuttle. The trails of light that we see as meteors are in fact the tiny chunks of rock crash through the Earth's atmosphere and burn up.
"The best thing is you don't need a telescope," he added.
The meteors will appear to originate near the constellation Perseus in the northeast, but they will streak across the sky.
Even if you live amid the glow of city lights, it's still worth looking out for meteors. The Perseids are not only more numerous than meteors in other meteor showers, but they are also brighter.