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Credit & Copyright: Jakub Koukal
(Valaåskö Meziåöäö Observatory)
Explanation:
Recorded the night of August 12-13,
images from four dedicated
meteor-monitoring
cameras at an
astronomical observatory in Czechia were aligned and combined
to create this all-night, all-sky view.
On that night,
the total count came to 1,706 meteors.
And since that coincided with the peak activity of the
2026 Perseid Meteor Shower,
most are perseids.
Their overwhelming numbers make them easy to spot.
Quite convincingly, perseid trails
all trace back to a single radiant on the sky at the upper right,
a region in the annual shower's
eponymous constellation Perseus.
But meteors belonging to other much less active showers
can also revealed by finding their radiants too.
For example, seen crossing the perseid trails are meteors
from a shower whose radiant lies in Cygnus,
known as Kappa Cygnids.
The
antihelion complex,
a general region near Aquarius and opposite the Sun in the sky, is also
identifiable as a weak source for meteors.
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