Meteor showers to light up the night sky Tuesday. Here's how to watch

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Peaks for two meteor showers will occur Tuesday night into Wednesday morning

The best viewing times are between 12 a.m. and 3 a.m. in the southern sky.

The prolific Perseid meteor shower is also under way in the northern sky.

Late summer’s season of nighttime spectacles gets an unofficial kickoff Tuesday as two regular meteor showers will peak simultaneously tonight and into early Wednesday.

Though among the minor meteor shower events, activity for both the Southern Delta Aquariid and Alpha Capricornids will be at peak activity between 12 a.m. and 3 a.m. local time for viewers in the Northern Hemisphere.

Individually, the two showers aren’t the most dramatic of “shooting star” events but together they’re expected to generate 20 or more meteors per hour and some of the phen