It's been 6 years since I have seen this meteor shower!Bad weather for 5 years and a Full Moon has impacted viewing every year for me, but this year was different.. a celebratory cigar was in order and I spent ALL night outside photographing and observing 142 meteors with a friend, We drove 3 hours to a dark location where the milkyway was clearly visible. I was able to photograph at least a dozen meteors! Here are a few of my favorites "so far". It was a great way to start off the new year! NIkon Pro DSLR, 1000 ISO,

While I have watched Quandantids several times, it was never a spectacular display, generally because of its short activity near the predicted peak. This year I was in a favorable longitude to see the peak but it was not much stuning (ZHR below ~ 80) as it seems the peak arrived few hours later than predicted. But I imaged a beautiful Quadrantid fireball, one of the very few we saw that night. The meteor appeared above an ancient ruins near Damghan, Iran. It's persistent train remains in my next 40 frames (20 minutes).

Today,january 04 2011 strange signals on my vlf SID recording instrument.Sudden ionospheric disturbances.Normally coming from solar flares,but yesterday and today coming from the quadrantiden meteor shower.Not so offen during meteor storms,that means a very special recording,and information for more studies.

The sky got cloudy just a few hours before the maximum of the Quadrantids. There were a lot of elks on the way to the lake I was shooting. Started to film anyway just before the ISS was passing over the frozen lake, then the sky started to clear. Then a bright fire ball lit the ground for a few seconds.

This is a composite video allsky image showing 65 Quadrantid meteors, 22 on January 3 and 43 on January 4. Several nice fireballs were recorded, and the location of the radiant is quite apparent.

Wow! Tonight Earth`s upper atmosphere really got hit full force by both the solar wind, producing some amazing coronas in purple and green, and every now and then a fragment from 2003 EH1 - the Quadrantids - joined the feast. Bitter cold weather here in Northern Norway made the photo-session a bit shorter than I hoped and my lens got covered in ice crystals all over, but I managed to catch some of the beauty of this cold night. Nikon D3, AF-S Nikkor 14-24mm f/2,8, various settings.

While doing a test shot, I had the good fortune of this field Quadrantids Meteor crossed my Canon 5D camera and my telescope FSQ106. Many greetings from Mexico

It has been cloudy in BC, so I drove to Alberta again (did the same thing in 1999), and the sky cleared just the west of the BC/Alberta border. Canon Astro Modified EOS 5D MarkII, EF24/1.4LII