SUNSET: 
0
Photographer:
phoralek
Location of Photo:
Elafonisi, Crete, Greece
Date/Time of photo:
11 August 2012 - 17 August 2024
Equipment:
Canon 450D, 550D, 6D, Ra; 8, 12, 15 and 35mm
Description:
Every year in mid-August, almost at the same time like the Perseids, another meteor shower peaks: the κ-Cygnid. Named after the star Kappa (κ) in the Swan constellation, from where the slow meteors seemingly appear, they are almost not known as--unlike the Perseids--they have a very low rate of meteors, only about 3 per hour when the shower peaks. Since I have chased κ-Cygnids from 2012, for more than 381 hours of 50 nights, to be exact, I was successful in capturing dozens of them. It allowed me to reveal it as a meteor shower against the 11 August 2021 nightscape scenery of Elafonisi Beach, Crete, Greece. I think nobody captured κ-Cygnids this way before (correct me if I am wrong), cause it required very long-term shooting. Co authors are Josef Kujal, Tomáš Slovinský and Mahdi Zamani
