Kim, I wasn't planning to go out, but if you do, this looks like the right night. This is an odd shower with a radiant a few degrees west of 44 Boo in the region between Boo, Dra and Her. The downside is that the Quads have a narrow 1/2 day peak activity and the max peak is occuring as I am writing this - at 00 UT or 6pm Jan 3. The IMO visual real time reporting system is showing visual peaks rising to 80 ZHR at 1/3 12UT. http://www.imo.net/ This shower has an unusual radiant. The radiant is in the high azimuth north west sky and will set at 7:41pm. But the radiant just dips below the horizon for couple of hours and then rises again in a few degrees east of true north sky at 9:44pm. It stays low in the northeastern sky and passes az northeast an an alt of about 30 degrees at 3:00 am. On the upside, this is the only shower this year that is not compromised by the Moon and the ZHR count does appear to be strong. That seems to translate into infrequent low horizontal grazers for visual observering. On the other hand, if you have a clear view of the northeast sky, the radiant would seem to be ideally placed for a tripod mounted intervalometer run wide-field DSLR. Cold but Clear Skies - Kurt
When I first posted at dusk, the sky was crystal clear and promised ideal conditions for observing the shower. Now, however, we have wall-to-wall cloud cover - not a star in sight. Bummer. Kim -----Original Message----- From: utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of Canopus56 Sent: Monday, January 03, 2011 6:06 PM To: Utah Astronomy List Serv Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Quadrantid meteors Kim, I wasn't planning to go out, but if you do, this looks like the right night. This is an odd shower with a radiant a few degrees west of 44 Boo in the region between Boo, Dra and Her. The downside is that the Quads have a narrow 1/2 day peak activity and the max peak is occuring as I am writing this - at 00 UT or 6pm Jan 3. The IMO visual real time reporting system is showing visual peaks rising to 80 ZHR at 1/3 12UT. http://www.imo.net/ This shower has an unusual radiant. The radiant is in the high azimuth north west sky and will set at 7:41pm. But the radiant just dips below the horizon for couple of hours and then rises again in a few degrees east of true north sky at 9:44pm. It stays low in the northeastern sky and passes az northeast an an alt of about 30 degrees at 3:00 am. On the upside, this is the only shower this year that is not compromised by the Moon and the ZHR count does appear to be strong. That seems to translate into infrequent low horizontal grazers for visual observering. On the other hand, if you have a clear view of the northeast sky, the radiant would seem to be ideally placed for a tripod mounted intervalometer run wide-field DSLR. Cold but Clear Skies - Kurt _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Visit the Photo Gallery: http://www.slas.us/gallery2/main.php Visit the Wiki: http://www.utahastronomy.com ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 10.0.1191 / Virus Database: 1435/3357 - Release Date: 01/03/11
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