☄ Quadrantids

  The Quadrantids are a meteor shower in Bootes.

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                      ⡇         ⢀⠞⠁       •
   •               ·  ⢹·  ⡇     ⠁     •
       •       ⠑⢦⣀    ⠈⠇ ⢰⠃           ⢀⣠⠤⠂
                 ⠈⠓⠄     ⠘     ·  ⡠⠴⠒⠋⠁
   ·     ⠐⠒⠒⠤⠤⢤⣀⡀                    •
                        +     ⠒⠒⠒⠒⠒
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  ⢀⣀⣀⠤⠤⠖⠒⠊⠉ ·
  ⠉       ·     ⢀       ⢰        ⠈⠓⢤⣀
   ·          ⣠⠖⠉   ⡀   ⠸⡀ ·    ·   ⠈⠙⠲⢄⡀
           ⢀⡴⠊⠁    ⡼⠁    ⡇     ⢠⡀       ⠈
          ⠐⠉      ⡼⠁            ⠱⡄
    ·   •        ⡼⠁      ·       ⠘⢆

  Type            Meteor shower
  Constellation   Bootes
  Peak            2027-01-04
  Rate at peak    up to 80 an hour

  Physical
  Debris from     2003 EH1, probably a dead comet

  More information about Quadrantids

  The Quadrantids can be as rich as the Geminids, but they are much harder
  to catch. Most showers spread their best hours over a night or two; this
  one packs almost everything into about six hours, so the timing matters
  far more than usual and half the world is in daylight when it happens.
  The name comes from Quadrans Muralis, "the wall-mounted quadrant", a
  constellation drawn around an astronomer's measuring instrument and
  dropped when the modern list of 88 was fixed. No other shower is named
  after something that no longer exists.

  History
  Discovered   first recorded 1825

  where it is tonight:  skymap.sh/Quadrantids