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Unfavourable conditions for this year’s display for observers in the UK and Ireland.
Quadrantid maximum only lasts a few hours and is predicted to occur this evening (Jan 3/4) when their radiant is grazing the N to NE horizon. It doesn’t reach a good elevation until after midnight and the Quadrantids will have to compete with a Full Moon riding high in the sky.
Don’t expect good capture rates this weekend.
Alex.
I was pleased to record quite a number of Quadrantids last night (Jan 3/4)
My provisional tally is 600+ QUAs from 6 video cameras. My N-facing cameras fared much better than my S-facing ones, greatly affected by the Full Moon.
The attached composite image is from my N-facing UK001H (RMS) camera which recorded 149 QUAs over 13 hours.
Alex.
Clear through the night in Chelmsford but cold (-4C min). A very bright Moon but dry transparent polar air. I got 580 Quads on 6 cameras including this bright one (apparent mag -2.1) on my SE pointing camera just below the Moon at 02:33:533 on the 4th.
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The best rates for me (visually, from North Yorkshire) seemed to be before midnight. In total I counted 26 over 3.5 hours, with a few impressive bright ones seen. It was a lovely clear night and I’m sure the display would have been excellent were it not for the full Moon in the sky! I’m still going through my pictures but here is a nice one I managed to capture.
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