Tonight (Nov 5) and this weekend are the best times to see the various peaks of the Guyfawkids meteor shower.
Unlike most meteor showers, when your best chance of seeing meteors is close to midnight, the Guyfawkids appear as soon as it is dark. It is also the only shower that have eye witness accounts of sounds associated with each of the fast moving "shooting stars".
With clear skies and good horizons some displays have been known to tally many thousands over the course of maybe just half an hour, so it is well worth looking out for them.
The meteors also vary tremendously in appearance. Some explode into a shower of colour (much like a firework rocket would) whilst others send seem to be part of a cluster of sequential coloured fireballs. It's all just unbelievable.
