Shooting stars are raining over Germany: This is how you see the meteor shower of the Quadrantids this evening
Created: 01/05/2022, 12:47 PM
From: Jennifer Lanzinger
At the beginning of the year, star lovers can look forward to meteor showers of the Quadrantids, up to 100 falling stars per hour are expected.
Berlin - New Year's Eve is not long over, space fans can look forward to the next twinkle in the sky.
If you want to watch a shooting star in the sky over Germany in the coming days, you sometimes have to stay up late or set an alarm clock directly.
Shooting stars are raining over Germany: this is how you see the meteor shower of the Quadrantids
Especially in the night from January 3rd to January 4th, stargazers could get their money's worth, when the high point of the meteor shower of the Quadrantids is to be expected.
The falling stars rain will officially last much longer, up to and including January 10th, sky-gazers should enjoy observing the sky.
Up to a hundred meteors per hour are likely to shoot across the sky, but mostly not until after midnight.
If you want to catch a shooting star, you have to stay up late or set an alarm clock for the second half of the night.
The penetration speed of these shooting stars into the earth's atmosphere is around 40 kilometers per second.
Shooting stars over Germany - where can you see the quadrantids?
The shooting stars will be visible all over the northern hemisphere, so even amateur astronomers in Germany can look forward to sparkling nights.
Only the weather could thwart the spectacle.
Recently, however, the weather had caused unusually warm temperatures on New Year's Eve.
The Quadrantids meteor shower may be the earliest event for space fans, but 2022 has a lot more to offer.
While absolute highlights await in May with a total lunar eclipse and a partial solar eclipse in October, star lovers can look forward to the Lyrid meteor shower in April, the Perseid shooting star night in August and the Draconids or
Orionids rejoice in October.
