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Saturday, January 3, 2015
On the night of January 4, residents of the northern regions of Russia will see the Shooting Stars – a REGNUM
On the night of 3 January 4, residents of middle latitudes Earth’s northern hemisphere can watch the annual meteor shower Quadrantids January. In Russia the stream would be best to see the inhabitants of the northern regions of the country.
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Watch Shooting Stars better from midnight until morning. In 2015, the observation is complicated by falling on January 5 full moon. Bright moonlight will dazzle the observer, so it’s best to hide from him in the shade of a tall building.
What seems sources meteor shower – in astronomy this point of the celestial sphere is called the radiant – is the constellation Bootes. At the end of the XVIII century constellation in the area called Quadrans Muralis, from which the name Quadrantids.
The period of maximum flux density of meteors last only two hours. At this time, the sky can be observed from 45 to 200 meteors per hour.
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