The 2020 Quadrantid Meteor Shower

摘要

The New Year started off with the Quadrantid meteor shower. This is one of the major meteor showers of the year, rivaling the Perseids and Geminids with peak rates of over 100 meteors per hour at times. Due to its short peak of less than 6 hours, the "Quads" can be difficult for ping jockeys to use. Often the radiant (the point in the sky where meteors appear to originate from) of this meteor shower is below the horizon at the peak, and therefore it's unusable.