The Perseid meteor shower will be seen in Friday, and will be best seen in the Northern Hemisphere. You will also get a good view if the skies are dark in your area or if you live outside the bright skies of urban America. According to scientists, if you are in any of these locations, you will see an average of 75 meteors per hour. Furthermore, if you live on the mountaintops, you will see around 105 meteors per hour.

At the Southern Hemisphere, viewers will see a very limited 30 to 40 meteors per hour at its peak. That’s still a lot of meteors, considering the fact that among the recorded number of meteor showers according to the International Astronomical Union, the Perseid meteor shower is the most reliable one in terms of actually giving a good show.

Also, this year’s Perseid meteor shower is predicted to be an above average one, thanks to the comet responsible, the 109P/Swift-Tuttle. This comet completes a revolution around the sun every 135 years. When it nears the sun, it heats up and spews dust and gas.

This comet left a stream of dust, and around the middle of July, the Earth started going towards this very dense debris. This debris has been around for a very long time already, constantly building up and accumulating. In fact, according to Peter Jenniskens from the SETI Institute, the Perseid Meteor Shower has been seen during the dark ages.