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One night of the 2026 Perseids: 185 meteors, found and stacked automatically (footage: Skywatchers livestream)

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The pictures are a whole night of video, 20:56 to 05:15 on 12-13 August, cut down to the meteors by Meteor Cut, a free open-source app: give it a video of the night sky and it finds every meteor and returns:

a highlight video with each meteor boxed and its speed shown (6 min 41 s for this night)

one picture with every meteor of the night stacked on the stars

each meteor's shower, angular speed and estimated magnitude, from the stars in the same frames

satellites and planes, separated from the meteors

16:9 clips of the fastest, longest and brightest meteors

a CSV and a report page

This night: 185 meteors. 141 of them trace back to one point 0.7° from the IAU's Perseid radiant (second picture), 29 were sporadic and 15 came from minor showers, among them the phi-Piscids and the August xi-Cassiopeiids. About 8 in the first hour while it got dark, then 24 to 32 an hour until dawn. The brightest reached about magnitude −2.4 at 02:47; the fastest crossed 13° of sky at 17.7 °/s.…

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