If you are planning to stay up late or head out of town this weekend, you may see a couple of shooting stars streak across the sky.
The annual Orionid meteor shower is at its peak between the very early hours of Friday, October 21 to Sunday, October 23, with the best rates expected early on Sunday morning.
"If you've got a clear sky you should see a few meteors," amateur astronomer Ian Musgrave says.
The Orionids is created by Earth moving through a trail of debris left behind by Halley's Comet, which also produces a meteor shower earlier in the year known as the Eta Aquariids.
