A night of Perseids (and others)

[jon.s]

Hello all, newbie here at TSS, looking for experts to help me demystify this image.

I spent a night in 2018 photographing the Perseid meteor shower and they've been sitting on my hard drive, until this holiday season when I find time to stack them together. Repositioning meteors is a time consuming exercise!

There were 26 meteors in total. A bunch of them are obviously Perseids. A few appears to be random meteors. There's one in the lower right quadrant pointing at the 5 o'clock direction which I believe could be a Kappa Cygnid. But what about this train of 3 meteors starting from the tree and pointing at the 4 o'clock direction? Which meteor shower could generate these? Or are they just a random coincidence? (And they are not plane or satellite trails.)

Technical info:
- Date/time: August 12-13, 2018 from 10:33 p.m. to 2:56 a.m. (Star position shown is at 12:35 a.m.)
- Location: Manitoulin Island, Ontario, Canada
- Equipment: Canon T4i, Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8 at 11 mm
- Exposure: ISO 6400, f/2.8, 15 sec
- Post-processing: 127-frame stacking using Sequator, Photoshop for meteor composite and final adjustments.

[JayTee]

First off, I love the image.

That train does not look like an airplane, so my guess would be a flashing or tumbling satellite. This is just a guess though.

Cheers,
JT

[jon.s]

Thanks JT. Interesting thought of it being a satellite.

I've attached a 100% crop of the middle one, straight from the raw file. It's got that typical meteor look - tapered on the tail end. The other two are similar. That why I think all 3 are meteors.

Jonathan