Quadrantid Fireball
Taken by Aleksander Trębacz on January 4, 2024 @
Oxford, UK
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Camera Used: SONY ILCE-7SM2
Exposure Time: 4/1
Aperture: f/1.0
ISO: 1600
Date Taken: 2024:01:04 20:15:31
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On the night of January 3-4, the annual maximum of the famous Quadrantidis shower occurred. This year, observations of meteors from this shower in Southern England were made possible by several hours of clear weather. The clouds moved east around 2 UT. That's when I started taking photos. Nothing happened for the first hour, until the first meteors started appearing around 3 UT. After hour 4, the intensity of the meteors increased significantly and around hour 5 they appeared more than one per minute. That's when this beautiful fireball (-3 mag.) appeared at 04:53 UT. It "fell" straight into the Praesepe (M44) star cluster in Cancer.
Camera: Sony A7s Mark II, ISO: 1600, exposure time: 4 sec. Lens: Samyang 24mm F1.4 @1.4 lens
From 3 to 6:30 UT, a total of 25 meteors belonging to the Quadrantids shower were caught, including 4 bright ones. The maximum was between 5 and 6 UT. The estimated ZHR was then approximately 100 meteors per hour.
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