The indexnightdatable to the day
Quadrantid meteor shower
Fires when peak Jan 3-4; short sharp maximum
Photograph eberhard grossgasteiger · CC0 1.0
January. The notch is October.
Next: Sunday, January 3 — 92 days away, keyed to the shower's peak night
Dates worth protecting
- Sun, January 3, 2027in 3 months
- Mon, January 3, 2028in 15 months
Keyed to the shower's peak night. Moon dates come from a mean lunar month and can be a day out — check one before you commit a four-hour drive to it.
- Where
- dark-sky sites
- Drive
- 90 minutes from Lakeland
- In season
- January
- Certainty
- datable to the day
- Drone
- permit
From the field
A maximum measured in hours rather than nights, so a few hours of cloud costs the entire year.