Up to 130 meteors can be observed every hour as the Quadrantid meteor shower arrives. This weather phenomenon will be most dramatic in the early hours of January 4, reports Svábhegyi Csillagwiszlagó.
The most important and exciting astronomical event to begin the year is the arrival of the Quadrantid meteor shower – books In the current situation.
According to the information It's a meteor shower that ideally attracts an average of 130 meteors into the northern sky every hour. It thus competes with the Perseid meteors in August (average maximum 84) and the Geminid meteors in December (average maximum 88 meteors per hour).
Shooting stars, or meteors, come from dust particles and pieces of rock hurtling through space at speeds several times the speed of a spaceship. A long, brightly lit ion channel is created in Earth's upper atmosphere, which people see as a meteor.
The parent body of the Quadrantid meteor shower is asteroid 2003 EH1, which is only 3 km in diameter. Interestingly, asteroids rarely produce debris clouds in their orbits that form the basis of meteor showers. However, the strange orb is still responsible for the Quadrantid meteor shower, suggesting that 2003 EH1 is actually the nucleus of comet C/1490 Y1, which astronomers in the Far East observed five hundred years ago. They wrote that this object could have left behind a thin cloud of dust that meets Earth every year in the first days of January, crossing our planet's orbit around the sun.
According to information, the best time to observe the quadrilaterals is the hours before dawn on Thursday. The swarm's radiation will then rise to its highest levels, and at six in the morning it will approach its height above the eighty-degree horizon in the eastern sky. He added: “The moon will not help us this time, as it is relatively close to radiation, and will shine in the Virgo constellation at a stage of 49 percent, which will certainly make it difficult to detect the 3-6 magnitude meteors that it consists of.” They add the majority of quatrains. Meanwhile, the swarm is also filled with very bright fireballs, so with a favorable sky, there's a good chance of a stunning and memorable shooting star. The only thing you have to do is look for a dark area devoid of city lights – in Budapest, for example, Normava or Harmachatar Hegy – Read the ad.
A detailed description of this phenomenon and its observation can be found in Svabeje Observatory on the side.
