Stargazers can enjoy the treat on the night of May 23 and the morning of May 24 when a new meteor shower will set up a show. You might have been a spectator to many meteor showers before, but this one has never graced the skies of our planet earth before, which makes it very exciting.

The new meteor shower, known as the Camelopardalids, will occur when earth sails through the field of tiny pieces of rock and Comet 209P/LINEAR creates the phenomenon, because of the solar heat on its surface.

Comet 209P/LINEAR completes one revolution of the sun in every five years. Comet 209P/LINEAR is claimed to be a very faint comet discovered in 2004 by the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research initiative.

Astronomers are of the belief that a brilliant show will be set up by the first Camelopardalids and this time the comet's debris fields from 1803 through 1924 will be intersected by the debris of the comet.

During the shower, hundreds of meteors will be produced every hour. The fragments of debris will die off after entering earth's atmosphere.

A clear sky on May 23 and 24 will be required to witness the spectacular show. Jim Todd, planetarium manager at Portland's OMS, advised those who will view from the city to observe where artificial lights cause the least obstruction.

"Meteor watching is basically an unaided-eye event but binoculars are handy for watching trails (persistent trains) that may hang in the sky for one or more seconds after a meteor's passage. Luckily, the waning crescent moon will be a nonfactor for the viewing", he added.

He said meteor rates are likely to exceed 200 per hour. The shower will peak from late Friday, May 23 through the early morning of the next day. The biggest part of the show is expected to occur midnight to 2 am.