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                               2024 January 11
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                          Quadrantids of the North
          Image Credit & [3]Copyright: [4]염범석 Yeom Beom-seok

   Explanation: Named for a [5]forgotten constellation, the [6]Quadrantid
   Meteor Shower puts on an annual show for planet Earth's northern
   hemisphere skygazers. The shower's [7]radiant on the sky lies within
   the old, astronomically obsolete constellation [8]Quadrans Muralis.
   That location is not far from the Big Dipper asterism, known to some as
   [9]the Plough, at the boundaries of the modern constellations Bootes
   and Draco. In fact the Big Dipper "handle" stars are near the upper
   right corner in this frame, with the meteor shower radiant just below.
   North star [10]Polaris is toward the top left. Pointing back toward the
   radiant, Quadrantid meteors streak through the night in this skyscape
   from Jangsu, South Korea. The composite image was recorded in the hours
   around the shower's peak on January 4, 2024. A likely source of the
   dust stream that produces Quadrantid meteors was identified [11]in 2003
   as an asteroid.

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   4. http://www.cometsky.com/
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   8. http://www.ianridpath.com/startales/quadrans.htm
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