Stuart Goff from Tamworth Regional Astronomy Club said the early setting moon means our skies are clearer for longer at the moment.

“You see the faint ones and bright ones,” Mr Goff said.

The best time to spot a meteor, which is a small piece of space rock spinning through Earth’s atmosphere, is between midnight and dawn.

He heard news about a good-sized meteor in Dubbo region recently but is yet to see evidence confirming the event.

“I did hear there was a pretty good one there but I haven’t see a photo yet,” he said.

Gunnedah residents can go hunting for personalised space dust, literally in their own backyard. Mr Goff said the mud in household gutters was a perfect capture point for tiny extraterrestrial particles which can be identified using a magnet to separate the minerals.

Meteors can fall at time but some of the most spectacular displays are seen during meteor showers. They occur periodically as our planet passes through high density areas of space rock.

“It’s pretty cool to see, especially multiple ones,” Mr Goff said on witnessing a meteor fall.

“The colour can tell you what it’s made of.

“Most of the time it’s iron.”

Mr Goff often combines his passions of astronomy and photography and recently snapped some spectacular photos of our solar system and beyond.

Two were of the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy, a far away galaxy which orbits our own Milky Way.

He also captured changeable sun spots, represented by dark patches on our sun.

“The spots can change month-to-month and can tell you certain information,” he said.