Try to spot a rare Aurigid meteor as the shower peaks overnight on Aug. 31

A meteor is pictured streaking the a starry night sky above a silhouetted horizon. The bright band of the Milky Way can be seen tumbling vertically through the centre of the image towards the horizon.

Why not try your luck in late August and try to spot a rare Aurigid shooting star as the shower comes to a peak later this weekend?

The Aurigid meteor shower takes place each year as Earth travels through the tenuous debris trail shed by the long-period comet C/1911 N1 Kiess, which is thought to have last travelled through the inner solar system some 2,000 years ago.