One of the best meteor showers of the year is peaking this weekend, and all you need is a clear sky and minimal light pollution to see it.

The Geminid Meteor Shower, usually known for producing plenty of bright meteors, is expected to peak on Sunday night, carrying through to Monday night Eastern time.

Patient skywatchers with clear weather in light pollution-free parts of the world should expect to see a meteor streak through the sky every couple minutes or so, bringing as many as 100 meteors per hour to dark skies, according to current forecasts.

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“The Geminids are usually one of the two best meteor showers of the year,” Alan MacRobert, senior editor at Sky & Telescope magazine, said in a statement. “Sometimes they’re more impressive than the better-known Perseids of August.”

If you want to catch sight of some Geminid meteors from your own backyard, head outside after 10 p.m. local time. Interested observers should be able to see some shooting stars until dawn breaks during the peak nights.

You don't need any special equipment to see the meteors shoot through the sky. Find a dark spot with a clear view of a wide swath of the sky, and allow your eyes to adjust to the darkness for about half an hour before expecting to see any meteors.

The Geminid meteor shower in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, on Dec 14. Image: Rex Features via AP Images/Associated Press

Just be sure to bundle up in jackets and blankets if you live in a colder part of the world and want to see the cosmic show. When you set up in your viewing spot outside, be sure to look toward the constellation Gemini, the point in the sky where the meteors should radiate from.

The Geminids happen each year when Earth passes through the trail of cosmic debris left behind by the object 3200 Phaethon in its path around the sun. At one point, scientists thought that 3200 Phaethon was an asteroid, but it was reclassified as an "extinct comet" relatively recently.

If you live in a light-polluted part of the world or simply don't want to venture outside to see the Geminids, you can check out a NASA webcast of the shower featuring live views starting at 11 p.m. ET on Dec. 13 through 3 a.m. ET the next day.

"A good meteor shower is a spectacular sight," Martin Barstow, president of the Royal Astronomical Society, said in a statement. "If you have clear skies, there are few better and easier ways to get an impression of the dynamism of the universe we live in, and how the Earth is directly connected to events in the rest of the solar system.”