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There are a dozen of notable annual meteor showers. The Perseids on Aug 11/12 and Geminids on Dec 14 are usually the strongest, though this year both are affected by bright moonlight. Here I was on the mountains of New Hampshire and set one of the cameras to capture them in real-time video using a fast 35mm wide angle lens at f1.2 and a sensitive camera. The brightest meteors are called  fireballs; those brighter than planet Venus which is the brightest object in the night sky after the moon. Most visible meteors do not create meteorites. They are caused by particles about a small pebble down to a grain of sand, weigh less than 1-2 grams. The brilliant flash of light from a meteor is not caused so much by the mass, but by its high kinetic energy generated by the speed. Fireballs like these are generated by a larger tennis ball meteoroid and may reach the ground in form of a small rock depending on its composition (ice, metal or rock). An upcoming notable meteor shower in 2022 will be the Leonids on Nov. 19 (expected to outburst). @twanight #meteorshower #astrophotography #sigmafpl