[HN Gopher] The Quadrantid meteor shower 2024 peaks tonight alon...
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The Quadrantid meteor shower 2024 peaks tonight alongside a bright
moon
Author : sva_
Score : 49 points
Date : 2024-01-03 17:19 UTC (5 hours ago)
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| typpo wrote:
| I posted this visualization of mine in a recent thread on the
| Quadrantids, but sharing again because people seemed to enjoy it:
| https://www.meteorshowers.org/view/Quadrantids
|
| It uses meteor data from NASA CAMS [1] to reconstruct the
| meteoroid cloud that creates the Quadrantids. When Earth passes
| through the cloud every year, we see a meteor shower.
|
| Each particle in this visualization represents an actual meteor
| that burned up in the Earth's atmosphere. CAMS reconstructs the
| orbit of the meteor based on its entry trajectory by
| triangulating multiple recordings. CAMS is very cool!
|
| [1] http://cams.seti.org/
| dylan604 wrote:
| Yup, that is definitely cool AF! Is this same visualization
| available for other showers? Don't want to sound greedy, but
| this is so compelling, I'm now curious what the other showers
| look like
| gwill wrote:
| there's a drop down at the top of the page where you can
| choose a shower/ or all of them.
| dylan604 wrote:
| ohmuhgawd. hangs head in shame. i played with the box in
| the upper right. i looked at the bottom left to see the
| inset to locate the radiant. But my eyes glazed over at the
| information in the top left after reading the title anxious
| at getting to the glorious imagery.
| scns wrote:
| Please be kind to yourself. Life is hard enough.
| dylan604 wrote:
| fair enough, but i do like to own up to my times of
| committing ID10T errors
| EForEndeavour wrote:
| Wow, this is incredibly cool! It's nerd-sniping me into wanting
| to (try to) learn WebGL and orbital mechanics.
| hutzlibu wrote:
| Unless you really want to learn WebGL (in which case you
| probably should rather learn WebGPU) - I would recommend
| learning a framework making use of it, so ThreeJS or
| BabylonJS are probably the best choice, to get results fast
| (unless you have prior GPU programming experience).
| polishdude20 wrote:
| Looks like for westerners 2am to 6pm is the best time to look.
| Originating around the Bootes constellation.
| dylan604 wrote:
| >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 wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| 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.
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