Thursday night will present an opportunity throughout the Northern Hemisphere to see the annual Draconid meteor shower hit its peak.

Don’t expect grand cosmic fireworks, but with patience you could see about 10 meteors per hour, according to NASA. AccuWeather is predicting good or fair visibility across much of the United States, and with a waning crescent moon, the so-called shooting stars are expected to stand out against a darker backdrop.

The Draconids are best seen during the evening, unlike most meteor showers that appear in the predawn hours. They will dart from the head of Draco the Dragon, the constellation from which the Draconids get their name, in the northern sky.

But NASA cautions that they are likely to be faint as they move at the relatively slow pace of 40,000 miles per hour. Occasionally, the Draconids undergo outbursts that produce “really dramatic” light shows, said Bill Cooke, the lead for NASA’s Meteoroid Environment Office. But the next one isn’t projected until 2018. That doesn’t mean an outburst is impossible Thursday night, but it is considered unlikely.