Students from a remote area in Central California close to the Nevada border may get a rare to opportunity to catch a glimpse of the Draconid meteor shower Saturday.

A helium balloon experiment by a group of high school and middle school students at Bishop Union High School will be the key to this sighting.

The balloon will be equipped with two GPS devices, a cryogenic temperature logger and four cameras, three of which are off-the-self models that were sensitive enough to recognize Venus during a previous flight, while one has a special, low-light meteor camera provided by NASA, students told Space.com.

A team of students calling themselves "Earth to Sky" will launch an unmanned balloon 7 to 30 miles above the surface between 3 and 5 p.m., when some 750 meteors could sprint through the sky.

While the Draconid meteor shower is expected to be active for the most part of the year, the main fireworks display will probably be drowned out by sunlight in the Western Hemisphere and a bright moon in the East, according to experts.

The student balloon should be high enough in the stratosphere to capture photos of the meteors with special nighttime cameras.

The team has launched five similar experiments in the past.

They hope to reach as high as 120,000 feet to eclipse their previous record of 100,000 feet.

While team members of Earth to Sky are confident they can obtain good images of the shooting stars, this mission may only serve as a trial run in preparation for another operation in November to observe the Leonid meteor shower.