[NASA] APOD: 2026 August 22 – Mostly Perseids

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Mostly Perseids

Explanation: Recorded the night of August 12-13, images from four dedicated

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cameras at an astronomical observatory in Czechia were aligned and combined to create this all-night, all-sky view.

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, the total count came to 1,706 meteors. And since that coincided with the peak activity of the

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, most are perseids. Their overwhelming numbers make them easy to spot. Quite convincingly,

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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 be 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

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, a general region near Aquarius and opposite the Sun in the sky, is also

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as a weak source for meteors.

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Date	August 22, 2026
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