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Well, I did end up going out for a look at the Quadrantids this morning with a fellow club member. I was pleasantly surprised to see 7 of them either rising up from the horizon or skimming it in the later part of the hour between 4 and 5 am. 2 of them were brief and faint. However the remaining 5 were quite spectacular, with rising up from the horizon and lasting several seconds.
A few of the ones closer to the horizon seemed to flare into visibility and disappear with a flash !
The Quadranids are quite easy to pick being relatively slow moving compared to other showers. Certainly well worth the effort of getting up for from our northerly location. As luck would have it the clouds rolled in as the sky started to brighten, so we got the best of it.
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