The best summertime meteor shower – the Perseids – will be coming to a sky near you this coming weekend, weather permitting.

During the Perseids’ peak on the nights of Aug. 11-12 and Aug. 12-13, skywatchers should see about 60 to 70 meteors per hour, Space.com said. The best views will come before dawn on the 13th, Astronomymagazine predicts.

An added bonus is that moonlight will not interfere with the spectacle this year. “The moon will be near new moon, it will be a crescent, which means it will set before the Perseid show gets underway after midnight,” NASA’s Bill Cooke told Space.com.

Earthsky‘s Bruce McClure said “it should be an awesome year to watch the Perseids!”

At best, a typical Perseid meteor shower produces 80 to a few hundred meteors per hour. The best Perseid performance we know of occurred in 1993, when the peak rate topped 300 meteors per hour, Cooke said.

What’s great about the Perseids is they can be enjoyed during summer’s warmth, unlike the often nippy nights during the Leonids of November or Geminids of December. “This major shower takes place during the lazy, hazy days of summer, when many families are on vacation,” McClure said.