Astronomers say this year’s Quadrantid meteors could be unusually good. A late moonrise could make it possible to see 30 to 60 meteors per hour in the United States and twice that many in Europe.<\/p>\n
When to look: the morning of January 4, after midnight blog time (1 a.m. U.S. Eastern time, or before dawn in Europe) — not ideal for a school night, alas. Let us know if you look and what you see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Astronomers say this year’s Quadrantid meteors could be unusually good. A late moonrise could make it possible to see 30 to 60 meteors per hour in the United States and twice that many in Europe. When to look: the morning of January 4, after midnight blog time (1 a.m. U.S. Eastern time, or before dawn … Continue reading “Quadrantid Meteors Early Friday Morning!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-universe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}