Orionid meteor shower: Look up early Sunday to see it

Some meteors may be visible Friday night into Saturday morning as well. From a dark site, about 10-20 meteors per hour are expected.

While the meteors themselves are faint than in other showers, they are fast.

Like other meteor showers, the Orionids are created by sand-sized bits of rock and dust left behind as by a comet passes through our part of the solar system.

The best time to see the Orionids will be Sunday morning between 4 a.m. and 6:30 a.m., after the waxing gibbous moon sets but before the rising Sun brightens the eastern sky

Meteors can appear anywhere in the sky but the Orionids appear to be originate from a point above the right shoulder of the constellation Orion the hunter.