The Leonid meteor shower peaks is peaking now. Are 'shooting stars' in the forecast for 2024?

Thin blue lines connect faint points in a starry night sky above a low horizon of short city trees and buildings. Just right of top center, a small moon hangs to the left of a bright point labeled Jupiter. On the left in the center, from the constellation Leo, A point labeled Leonids protrudes green lines in many directions.

It is important to stress again that at the outset that any suggestion of a spectacular meteor Leonid display this year is, to put it mildly, overly optimistic. 

Unless the Leonid meteor shower provides an unexpectedly rich shower at its maximum on Sunday morning (Nov. 17), this year's display will be ruined by the moon, which will turn full on the 15. If the shower is at its normal peak strength of 10 to 20 meteors per hour, little or nothing may be seen in the moonlit sky.