Shooting Star Display: How and When to Take In the 2024 Perseid Meteor Shower

A meteor streaks across the sky during the annual Perseid meteor shower in a file photo. Bill Ingalls/ NASA via Getty Images

Canadians are in for another spectacular sky show this August as the Perseid meteor shower takes over the skies.

The best time to see the meteors will be Aug. 11 and 12, though they will be present from late July to mid-August, according to Western University physics and astronomy professor Peter Brown.