This rain will have its peak on January 3 with up to 120 meteors per hour, but generally its meteors are visible from 1 to 5 January after midnight.
Thanks to the Moon is in its waning phase , there will be difficulties to see the rain, but you definitely do not miss streaming visit http: // live .slooh.com / stadium / live / Quadrantid-meteor-shower-2016 from 19:00 hours have been following the heavens.
Some one hour last the astronomical event in which between 50 and 100 meteors “rain down” and will be seen in the Northern Hemisphere . “The apparent radial, where the shooting stars seem to fall, is north of the sky,” Candelaria said in a statement.
Quadrantids derive their name from a constellation obsolete, the Quadrans Muralis (mural quadrant), officially considered, since 1930, part of the constellation of Boötes, also known as “the shepherd of oxen” or “the herdsman,” said the expert. The parent body of the Quadrantids was probably identified as asteroid 2003 EH1, which is believed to turn the C / 1490 Y1 comet observed Chinese astronomers, Japanese and Korean about 500 years ago.
The EWRS is a private, nonprofit educational organization created in 1985 with the aim of promoting the observation of the sky, astronomy outreach and research to amateur level.
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