Quadrantid Meteors 2nd-3rd January 2025

[Rick]

A tracked-stack of the meteors caught by my two Global Meteor Network cameras on the night of 2nd to 3rd January, 2025, between 17:39 to 06:59 UTC. The north-west facing camera saw 187 meteors provisionally identified as Quadrantids, and 95 others. The north-east facing camera saw 169 Quadrantids and 95 others. There's a small zone of overlap, so some meteors were seen by both cameras.


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[Rick]

The brightest two events in the above image were this Quadrantid (about half-way out at ten o'clock):

https://archive.ukmeteors.co.uk/reports/2025/orbits/202501/20250103/20250103_065536.921_UK/index.html

and this sporadic (top, just right of centre):

https://archive.ukmeteors.co.uk/reports/2025/orbits/202501/20250102/20250102_193805.170_UK/index.html

There was a lot of data captured by cameras in the UK last night, and they didn't all get their data in for analysis in time this morning, so further matches may reveal themselves in the next day or two as the data gets incorporated. This morning's run analysed 30126 detections, found 3698 potential matches and confirmed 2618 meteor orbits.

[Rick]

Quadrantids captured over three nights - 2025 Jan 1st to 4th

This is a selective tracked stack of the Quadrantid meteors captured by my two Global Meteor Network cameras on the nights of 1st, 2nd and 3rd January 2025. In total 454 tracks went into this stack, but the total number of meteors involved is a bit lower than that because some meteors are split across two frames, and some meteors were seen by both cameras. There may also be a few non-Quadrantids included in this image because they happened in the same ten-second frame as a Quadrantid.


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