Eta Aquarids meteor shower 2020: Australians told to look to the skies early Wednesday for best views

This will be a good meteor show to see from the southern hemisphere, but you'll need to be up early, experts say. See where, when and how to watch in Australia

If you want to see what happens when a piece of dust from the tail of a comet hits the earth's atmosphere at about 60km per second, then look roughly east in the early hours of Wednesday.

Between about 2am and 5am, the annual Eta Aquarids meteor shower will peak during the Earth's journey through the orbit of Comet Halley and the trail of dust it leaves behind.