Doorbell footage captured the moment a meteor shot over a Kent home in the early hours of this morning.

Stargazers have been able to watch meteor showers for the past two evenings, with experts predicting some could see up to 100 every hour.

At around 1am today, Christopher Brogan’s Ring doorbell caught one shooting through the sky above his home at the Royal British Legion Village in Aylesford.

The 44-year-old, who had never seen anything like it before, said: “I was up trying to watch it in my back garden and couldn’t see anything.

“I then checked my Ring doorbell and as I was watching it live I saw it had caught it.

“It didn’t record everything that night unfortunately so it didn’t get any others.”

Adriano Cobo also captured the moment a meteor went over Reculver Towers near Herne Bay on Monday night.

The peak of the Perseid meteor shower was visible across Kent from around sunset on Monday (August 12) until the early hours of this morning (August 14) – in places where the skies were clear.

The event is associated with the dusty debris left by Comet Swift-Tuttle, which orbits the sun once every 133 years.

The meteoroids from the comet, mostly no bigger than a grain of sand, burn up as they hit the Earth’s atmosphere at 36 miles per second to produce a shooting stream of light in the sky.

Peak temperatures can reach anywhere from 1,648C to 5,537C as they hit the atmosphere.

The meteors are called Perseids because they seem to dart out of the constellation Perseus.

Did you see any meteors this week in Kent? If so, send your pictures to cphillips@thekmgroup.co.uk