Read how, when and where to watch the Leonid meteor shower below. The Leonid meteor shower, one of the most impressive night sky highlights, will be seen hours before dawn on Tuesday, NASA stated. Asia will be treated to the best Leonid meteor shower show, but everyone in the world can witness it regardless, during the wee hours of the morning – between 1 AM and dawn.

With clear skies and less urban lights, the Leonid meteor shower will be a treat than no one must miss. Bill Cooke of the NASA Meteroid Environment Office stated:

“We’re predicting 20 to 30 meteors per hour over the Americas, and as many as 200 to 300 per hour over Asia.”

Watch the Leonid meteor shower.

The Leonid meteor shower is created from the Tempel-Tuttle comet, which passes through our solar system every 33 years on its orbit around the sun. The Tempel-Tuttle comet always leaves debris made up of ice and rock the size of sand grains, peas, and marbles.

Cooke has stated about predicting when to best watch the Leonid meteor shower:

“We can predict when Earth will cross a debris stream with pretty good accuracy. The intensity of the display is less certain, though, because we don’t know how much debris is in each stream.”

Watch the Leonid meteor shower during these times:

In the United States, 4 a.m. EST (1 a.m. PST) Tuesday.

In Europe, between 1 a.m. and daybreak local time.