“If you see one meteor shower this year, make it .” That’s the recommendation from NASA in its overview of the best annual showers.

For 2015, the Perseids peak overnight Wednesday, Aug. 12 into the early morning hours of Aug. 13. Though the meteors travel quickly — up to speeds of — there’s still a solid chance to see some of these fireballs, with up to 100 meteors per hour dashing across the sky.

“The Perseids are always a great meteor shower, usually because it’s summer so it’s not real cold,” Mitzi Adams, an astrophysicist with NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, told weather.com earlier this year. Of course, that’s not always the case; Adams remembers once in Huntsville, Alabama, where she’s located, the temperature dipped into the 50s. Despite the chill, “it was beautifully clear,” she said. In other words, little issue with the light from the moon.

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can seriously inhibit Perseid viewing, like it did in 2014 when the meteor shower peak fell just after the month’s full moon, which happened to be a super moon. “Lunar glare wipes out the black-velvety backdrop required to see faint meteors, and ,” wrote Bill Cooke of NASA’s Meteoroid Environment Office, last year.

No such problem for 2015. The second full moon of July happened on the 31st and in August, the full moon doesn’t occur until the 29th. This week, we’re into a , which means it’s not very visible to us — leaving the Perseids to shine in all their glory.

Parts of the country will have a great view, according to weather.com senior digital meteorologist Jon Erdman. “Much of the East should be cloud-free Wednesday night. The exceptions, however, may be in north Florida where you may be dodging thundershowers, and parts of northern New England where stubborn clouds may get in your way.”

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“Nuisance showers” might also hinder parts of the central Plains, upper Midwest and northern Great Lakes, he said, but from the Ohio Valley to the southern Plains, viewing should be superb. As for the west, “some lingering thundershowers may dot parts of the central/southern Rockies and desert Southwest,” Erdman added. “Some low clouds may hug the coast from Washington to far northwest California. Otherwise, crystal-clear viewing can be expected.”

As always, NASA has great tips for making the most of the free night show whose stars radiate from the constellation Perseus and are associated with the comet Swift-Tuttle: Get away from city lights, dress appropriately for your climate so you don’t have to move once you’re outside and watch without a telescope or binoculars. “Using either reduces the amount of sky you can see at one time,” NASA writes, “lowering the odds that you’ll see anything but darkness.”

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