Forecasters estimate that the 2014 Leonids meteor shower was at its peak on the morning of November 18. The shower produced a dazzling, though mild, meteor shower.

Bill Cooke, from the Meteoroid Environment Office at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, suggested going to an area with darker skies, away from city lights, then lying flat on your back looking up to the sky.

Cooke said in a statement, “We’re predicting 10 to 15 meteors per hour. For best viewing, wait until after midnight on Nov. 18, with the peak of the shower occurring just before sunrise.”

Leonids are pieces of debris from Comet Tempel-Tuttle. The comet travels to the inner solar system every 33 years, leaving a trail of dusty debris behind. When Earth encounters a stream, meteors are visible flying out of the constellation called Leo. Several streams have come into the November part of Earth’s orbit.

A telescope at the Marshall Space Flight Center provided a live viewing opportunity from a telescope via Ustream. The stream began live feeding on Monday, November 17, 6:30 p.m. CST. The broadcast continued until sunrise on the morning of Tuesday, November 18.

According to earthsky.org, meteors in annual showers are named for the point in our sky from which they appear to radiate. This shower is named for the constellation Leo the Lion, because these meteors radiate outward from the vicinity of stars representing the Lion’s mane.