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Looks like for westerners 2am to 6pm is the best time to look. Originating around the Bootes constellation.

dylan604 3y ago
>Looks like for westerners 2am to 6pm is the best time to look. Originating around the Bootes constellation. hmm, I'm going to disagree with that. I'd guess anything after sunrise would be a lot of wasted effort. maybe you meant 6am? that's a heck of a typo
- loloquwowndueo 3y ago
  Where I am the sun sets at 4:23 pm, so there’s time between that and 6 pm. Doesn’t not make any sense to me.
  - dylan604 3y ago
    Okay, so 2am decreasing in visibility closer to sunrise, and then visible again after sunset to 6pm. "Best viewing times" would not be anything I would ever use while the sun was up unless we're talking about viewing the sun.
    - NoZebra120vClip 3y ago
      Scripture scholars recount an amusing proposition about Genesis 15:5, where God takes Abram outside and challenges him to "count the stars, if you can" So they suggest that Abram was taken outside in broad daylight, and God was perhaps teasing him a little bit; perhaps the ancients were even aware of things like the star nature of the Sun and the invisible stars present at daytime. It's cool to think about it. Imagine Abram gazing up and counting quite invisible stars, or arriving at a star-count of 1 and going "seriously?"
ok_dad 3y ago
Is there a way to figure this out for a given lat-lon? I’m in Hawaii and find space event things are routinely quite different here since we’re as far away from LA as LA is from NYC
- labster 3y ago
  It’s the same time everywhere, occurring in the entire sky. You get more meteors on the leading edge of the Earth moving forward in its orbit, so starting at 1AM solar time gets more meteors. You generally stop being able to see them when the sun rises. All you need to look up are the peak days. “Everywhere” excludes the poles though, things get a bit wonky above 80° latitude.
- McKayDavis 3y ago
  [1] timeanddate.com is a great site that provides a visualization with times and directions for a given city. I don't think its possible to link directly to a specific lat/lon, so you'll have to choose the city yourself. For Honolulu the "very good" times are between 2am-6am HST, with the direction about 40 degrees (NE) [1] https://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/meteor-shower/quadrantids.html https://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/meteor-shower/quadrant...
- sva_ 3y ago
  The free version of the app Stellarium allows you to search for such things and locate them in the sky.

>Looks like for westerners 2am to 6pm is the best time to look. Originating around the Bootes constellation. hmm, I'm going to disagree with that. I'd guess anything after sunrise would be a lot of wasted effort. maybe you meant 6am? that's a heck of a typo

loloquwowndueo 3y ago
Where I am the sun sets at 4:23 pm, so there’s time between that and 6 pm. Doesn’t not make any sense to me.
- dylan604 3y ago
  Okay, so 2am decreasing in visibility closer to sunrise, and then visible again after sunset to 6pm. "Best viewing times" would not be anything I would ever use while the sun was up unless we're talking about viewing the sun.
  - NoZebra120vClip 3y ago
    Scripture scholars recount an amusing proposition about Genesis 15:5, where God takes Abram outside and challenges him to "count the stars, if you can" So they suggest that Abram was taken outside in broad daylight, and God was perhaps teasing him a little bit; perhaps the ancients were even aware of things like the star nature of the Sun and the invisible stars present at daytime. It's cool to think about it. Imagine Abram gazing up and counting quite invisible stars, or arriving at a star-count of 1 and going "seriously?"

ok_dad 3y ago

Is there a way to figure this out for a given lat-lon? I’m in Hawaii and find space event things are routinely quite different here since we’re as far away from LA as LA is from NYC

labster 3y ago
It’s the same time everywhere, occurring in the entire sky. You get more meteors on the leading edge of the Earth moving forward in its orbit, so starting at 1AM solar time gets more meteors. You generally stop being able to see them when the sun rises. All you need to look up are the peak days. “Everywhere” excludes the poles though, things get a bit wonky above 80° latitude.
McKayDavis 3y ago
[1] timeanddate.com is a great site that provides a visualization with times and directions for a given city. I don't think its possible to link directly to a specific lat/lon, so you'll have to choose the city yourself. For Honolulu the "very good" times are between 2am-6am HST, with the direction about 40 degrees (NE) [1] https://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/meteor-shower/quadrantids.html https://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/meteor-shower/quadrant...
sva_ 3y ago
The free version of the app Stellarium allows you to search for such things and locate them in the sky.