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#Quadrantid #MeteorShower peaks this week: How to see the first 'shooting' stars of the year. Via @live_science #SkyWatchers 🌃✨🌠 #Quadrantids #MeteorShowers #meteor #meteors #Space #Astrophysics #OrbitalMechanics #Astronomy 🚀 🌌 ☄️ 🛰️
Quadrantid meteor shower peaks... -
Coming soon to a sky near you - #Geminids in mid-December & #Quadrantids in January1
2025's Best #Meteor Shower Is About to Light Up The Sky - Here's Your Guide https://www.sciencealert.com/2025s-best-meteor-shower-is-about-to-light-up-the-sky-heres-your-guide
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Just saw an excellent #fireball, part of the #Quadrantids I presume.
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Just after sunset tonight, 1/3, look Southwest and check out Saturn with nearby Venus about three degrees north of a thickening crescent Moon. You may see some of remnants of the Quadrantid meteor shower, too!
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The #Quadrantids meteor shower is predicted to peak in activity at around 1900 UTC on 3 January. Under a dark sky with no moon, when the radiant is high in the sky, observers can expect to see up to 100 meteors per hour.
The Quadrantids are so named because they appear to radiate on the sky from the former location of an obsolete northern constellation called Quadrans Muralis. It was introduced by the French astronomer Joseph Jérôme Lefrançois de Lalande in 1795 and depicted an astronomical measurement device. It fell into disuse and disappeared from star charts before 1900. Learn more about it: http://lostconstellations.com
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How to Watch the #Quadrantids #Meteor Shower, First of 2025, Peak Tonight
The night sky during the Quadrantids meteor shower over Pigeon Point Light Station in Pescadero, Calif., last January.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/02/science/space/meteor-shower-quadrantids.html
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Space Weather
[This post will be split into multiple posts on BSky]
According to AMS, The annual Quadrantids meteor shower, which is active between 26 Dec and 16 Jan, is expected to peak on 03 Jan at around 17h45 UT. This peak favours the Pacific Ocean region.
Hiroshi Ogawa (Japan) predicts a peak on 04 Jan at 09h UT, so bear in mind these variances between predictions. Personally, I trust the latter.
The shower has a traditionally sharp peak of activity over a few hours, but if the timing is out then other parts of the world will get the benefit of the peak activity. The new moon on 30 Dec will help with darker skies.
AMS: https://www.amsmeteors.org/meteor-showers/meteor-shower-calendar/#Quadrantids
Hiroshi Ogawa:
https://www.emeteornews.net/2024/01/20/quadrantids-2024-radio/ -
I've now pulled together the busy parts of the overnight timelapse videos from our 4 #GMN #RaspberryPi #MeteorCameras into one video. The #Quadrantids were coming thick and fast! https://youtu.be/P6I0B-5JoN0?si=bR9kK-kO1KbHSQVH #MeteorShower #Meteors
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When and where to see the Quadrantids, 2024's first meteor shower.
CBS News reports: "The Quadrantids, which are visible across the night sky, are best viewed in the Northern Hemisphere during the night and pre-dawn hours, according to NASA."
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Loads of #meteors captured last night on our #GMN #RaspberryPi #MeteorCameras from Oxfordshire, UK, many of them #Quadrantids. Here are the track-stacks, 248 meteors on UK000F, 416 on UK001L, 418 on UK002F with the shower #radiant in the middle + 314 on UK0006. Dotted lines are aircraft that were in shot at the same time as a meteor.
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Heads up? There's a meteor shower peaking soon. The best viewing is supposed to be between 1am-5am on January 4.
It's going to be cold and overcast where I'm at so I'm not going to try to see this one but I wanted you to know in case you see a meteor.
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Seriously considering driving up to the Burnsville Cove - some of the darkest sky on the East Coast per https://www.lightpollutionmap.info/#zoom=5.03&lat=38.8609&lon=-79.6324 - for the #Quadrantids in early January. It'll be a short show, since the moon rises at midnight, but if the sky is clear they should be *gorgeous* up there!
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Preliminary data shows that the #Quadrantids #meteor shower peaked at the expected time of 04-05h UT this morning. This data comes from my own reception of radio echoes from the Graves satellite radar on 143.050 MHz. The count is in meteors per 10 minutes.
My attempt to receive FT8 signals from EI9KP on 34.013 MHz resulted in "nothing heard".
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LOOK UP! The #Quadrantids meteor shower peaks tonight into tomorrow, January 3-4.
Unfortunately, the Moon is approaching full, so the skies will be a bit bright. Try to get out late tonight or before dawn tomorrow, and look to the north-northeast.
More info: https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/everything-you-need-to-know-quadrantid-meteor-shower/
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#tldr Go outside in the obscene earliest/latest time of the morning/night, Look up, try to ignore the very brightly reflected moon. Wait.
#Space #MeteorShower #Quadrantids :sparkles_trans:
CNET: How to See the 2023 Quadrantids Meteor Shower Peak Tonight in a Flurry of Fire.
https://www.cnet.com/science/space/how-to-see-the-2023-quadrantids-meteor-shower-peak-tonight-in-a-flurry-of-fire/ -
9m band, anyone?
Phil, EI9KP in the west of Ireland will be conducting some propagation tests on the 34 MHz (9m) band on Wednesday the 4th of January 2022. This coincides with the peak of the Quadrantids meteor shower which is expected to peak around 03:00 to 04:00 UTC on the 4th.
Read details here: https://ei7gl.blogspot.com/2023/01/upcoming-propagation-tests-at-34-mhz.html
#RadioPropagation
#Amateur Radio
#Quadrantids
#Meteors
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RT @Astro_Christina
Can you see shooting starts from space? Turns out, yes! The first meteor shower of the decade and we were lucky enough to catch it from the @Space_Station along with the northern lights. This is a composite image of a few of the #quadrantids as they blazed into the atmosphere.
