Fall is, rather appropriately, a good time to look for shooting stars. Go out any clear night and look at the stars an hour and you’re bound to see at least one meteor flash across the night sky.

Noctilucent clouds, Earth's highest clouds, shine blue in the twilight sky from late May to August in the northern hemisphere ...

However, if the skies are clear, about 25 shooting stars — some of them particularly ... with a crescent moon setting shortly ...

Look west just after sunset for a reddish dot just above the horizon. It's going to be about 14 degrees from the sun and shine at magnitude +0.5. Just above it will be magnitude +2.3 star Regulus ...

Venus, called the "Evening Star," will appear in the southwest after sunset, and will get higher ... harder to see during the peak night, the shooting stars can still be spotted up to a week ...

Not only because the shower will peak, but because the waxing crescent moon will set a few hours after sunset, so the shooting stars will be extra bright against a moonless sky. You don't have to ...