Just saw an excellent #fireball, part of the #Quadrantids I presume.

Wir haben Sternschnuppen gesehen!!

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

Our #resolution this 'new year' is that in fact it began with the Winter #Solstice and runs through 13 Dark s to the next Winter Solstice. We will celebrate each dark and full Moon.

We intend to #ReclaimTime and the #patriarchal control of #time in the settler-colonial #Gregorian #calendar. This completely eliminates the #Moon which belongs to virtually every #Indigenous #cosmology. Cosmic time reckons with and

Look Westerly on a bright #London horizon this evening for the setting. Tomorrow late night lie with your feet NE and look up for the #Quadrantids (bring a blanket!)

Read more on #lunarchy here
https://www.jstor.org/stable/48713458

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

Space Weather

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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/

#spaceweather
#meteors
#quadrantids