“Even though it was not the peak I was still able to catch a few streaks across the sky,” Acuña wrote in an email.

The shower peaks tonight (Monday, Dec. 13, or in the early hours of Dec. 14), but the International Meteor Organization reports that observers under dark skies are already seeing up to 40 meteors an hour.

If you take your camera out tonight, send us your best shots — if we get enough good ones, we’ll compile the best into a gallery.

Image: Chris Acuña

See Also:

• How to Watch the Leonid Meteor Shower
• Video: Meteor Explodes Over New Mexico
• New Super Close-Up Images From Comet Flyby
• Reader Photos: Ghostly Green Comet Approaches Earth
• New Evidence of Ice Age Comet Found in Ice Cores
• Comet Contains One of Life’s Precursors

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Authors: Lisa Grossman

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