Coming soon to a sky near you - #Geminids in mid-December & #Quadrantids in January1
2025's Best #Meteor Shower Is About to Light Up The Sky - Here's Your Guide https://www.sciencealert.com/2025s-best-meteor-shower-is-about-to-light-up-the-sky-heres-your-guide
๐ Wir haben Sternschnuppen gesehen!! ๐
Just after sunset tonight, 1/3, look Southwest and check out Saturn with nearby Venus about three degrees north of a thickening crescent Moon. You may see some of remnants of the Quadrantid meteor shower, too!
1๏ธโฃ #Quadrantids2025: First meteor shower ๐
Peak: Jan 3-4, visible Dec 26 '24-Jan 12 '25
Head away from city lights for UK spectacle #Astronomy #MeteorShower #NightSky #Quadrantids
#BackyardAstronomy :
The #Quadrantids #MeteorShower peaks tonight for a short time. In the @WDEFNews12 #TennesseeRIverValley area, skies should be mostly clear around peak meteor time just around midnight with increasing clouds going towards sunrise. Not a huge shower, usually ~25 per hour, could be up to 100 per hour under the right conditions.
#KeepLookingUp
https://www.amsmeteors.org/meteor-showers/meteor-shower-calendar/#Quadrantids
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 Jรฉrรดme Lefranรงois 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 ๐s 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 ๐ ๐ and โ๏ธ
Look Westerly on a bright #London horizon this evening for the ๐ 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
Jack C.M
Royal Observatory of Belgium
Kathy Bryson
Ian Volante
Noujoum
Westport Observatory
masonQQ
Meteorologist Austen Onek
Dr. John Barentine FRAS
Radical Anthropology