Dr. John Barentine FRAS on Nostr: The #Quadrantids meteor shower is predicted to peak in activity at around 1900 UTC on ...
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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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
#Astronomy #MeteorShower #NightSky #History