Calgary is going to be treated to quite the light show this weekend.

The Perseid meteor shower peaks August 11 and 12.

According to astronomy author and photographer Alan Dyer, this year’s show should see more meteors per hour than normal, explaining the Perseids come from the debris of a comet which last passed by earth in 1992.

“Every 12 years or so, which is the time it takes for Jupiter to go around the sun, Jupiter’s gravity kind of pushes some extra debris towards us and we pass through a little more of this comet dust,” he said.

In terms of how frequent the streaks of light will be, Dyer says you can expect to see one a minute.

“Several minutes can go by and you don’t see anything then all of a sudden you see a flurry of them,” he said.

The peak hours for the meteor shower will be Friday night into Saturday morning.

Of course that all depends on the weather but Dyer says if you miss it don’t worry because, after all, it is an annual event.

“In future years the moon phase may be better like it was last year when we had no moon at, that’s sort of the ideal circumstance,” he explained.

At the height of the shower, you could average seeing a meteor a minute.