Two meteor showers - the Southern Delta Aquariids and Alpha Capricornids - are scheduled to peak around the same time Tuesday evening. And one is known for its spectacularly bright fireballs.
The best time to see any meteor shower - including this double event - is between 2 a.m. and 4 a.m. local time, Nick Moskovitz, a planetary astronomer at Lowell Observatory in Arizona, told Business Insider.
People in the Southern Hemisphere are in for a better show, but folks in the Northern Hemisphere can still enjoy the shower if they know where to look, Moskovitz said.
"If you're looking to the southern sky from the US, what you'll see is meteors heading to the north, the east, and the west from the southern hemisphere," Moskovitz, who has nearly 100 cameras set up across Arizona that observe hundreds of meteors showers a year, told BI.
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