<h1>Perseid meteor shower blossoms this evening</h1>

If you desire to wish upon a "falling star," tonight's your night. That is, if you're ready to stay up past midnight.

The yearly Perseid meteor shower 2009, which began just about July 14, will achieve its top activity early Wednesday morning. At its peak, the shower typically has anywhere from 60 to 80 visible meteors an hour, according to NASA.

NASA recommends witnesses get away from city lights and lie flat on a blanket. When scouring the sky for Perseid meteor shower 2009, avoid facing at the moon, since that will cut down one's nighttime vision and make it trickier to spot the close streaks of light. Stargazers will have to contend with a gibbous moon that's just a few days past being full.

The Perseid meteor shower 2009 can come out in several part of the sky, but the tails of the meteors will point back to the constellation Perseus -- the shower's namesake -- in the northeast corner of the sky.

Another possible roadblock to your Perseid meteor shower 2009watching: The weather. The National Weather Service claims for a "mostly cloudy" evening, and a cloud of fogginess had settled all over Boston at around 6 p.m. this evening, retarding flights at Logan International Airport