Twelve Years of Kappa Cygnids

Meteors from the Kappa Cygnid meteor shower are captured on this time-lapse composite skyscape. The minor meteor shower, with a exquisite no longer some distance from its eponymous star Kappa Cygni, peaks in mid-August, practically on the the same time because the grand larger-known and larger-noticed Perseid meteor shower. However, viewed to indulge in a top fee of most productive about 3 meteors per hour, Kappa Cygnids are vastly outnumbered by the more neatly-liked, prolific Perseid shower’s meteors that emanate from the heroic constellation Perseus. To select dozens of Kappa Cygnids, this long term astro-imaging venture compiled meteors in exposures selected from over 51 August nights at some stage within the years 2012 thru 2024. Many of the exposures with identified Kappa Cygnid meteors had been made in August 2021, a excessive level of the shower’s known 7-year exercise cycle. All twelve years value of Kappa Cygnids are registered against a spoiled sea and evening skyscape of the Milky Diagram above Elafonisi Seaside, Crete, Greece, additionally recorded in August of 2021.