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perseids peak time: Perseid Meteor Shower 2025 Peak: Why does Perseids occur? Here’s when, where to watch, ideal locations, best viewing tips

Perseid Meteor Shower 2025 peak is available. This is when, where to watch, ideal locations and best viewing tips. Perseid meteor shower reaches its annual peak on August 12–13, 2025. This event is one of the most anticipated meteor showers each year. Despite the moonlight interference from a waning gibbous moon, skywatchers still have opportunities to view bright meteors and occasional…

perseids peak time: Perseid Meteor Shower 2025 Peak: Why does Perseids occur? Here’s when, where to watch, ideal locations, best viewing tips

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Perseid Fireballs: meteor shower August 12th and 13th‏!

A fireball is a very bright meteor, at least as bright as the planets Jupiter or Venus. They can be seen on any given night as random meteoroids strike Earth's upper atmosphere. One fireball every few hours is not unusual. Fireballs become more numerous, however, when Earth is passing through the debris stream of a comet.

For every fireball that streaks out of Perseus, there will be dozens more ordinary meteors. The Perseid meteor rate from dark-sky sites could top 100 per hour.