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A June Epsilon Cygnid

Gaetan Thibault from Sainte-Catherine-de-la-Jacques-Cartier, Quebec, Canada

A meteor slices across the Summer Triangle — glowing hot blue as it reaches peak brightness in the center of its trail. This wide-field view combines 21 minutes of total exposure taken with a Canon astrophography DSLR and 20mm lens at f/3.2 (one meteor frame and 20 additional 60-second subexposures with a fog filter). The imager traced the meteor to the June Epsilon Cygnids, a weak meteor shower with a relatively high entry velocity.

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