Quadrantids meteor shower 2028
Peak night, up to 120 meteors an hour under a dark sky. The Moon (31%) gets in the way for part of the night — watch after it sets.
When
What it is
The Quadrantids are dust from 2003 EH1. Each year the Earth crosses this stream and the grains burn up 80–100 km above us at 41 km/s. The meteors seem to fly out of Boötes, so the shower is named after it.
How to see it
Go somewhere dark in the hours before dawn, lie back and look at the whole sky, not at the radiant. Give your eyes 20 minutes to adapt and don’t look at your phone. The peak is short — only a few hours — so the exact night matters. The Moon (31%) gets in the way for part of the night — watch after it sets.
Check the clouds for that night
See it for your city
See also
Mars and Mercury in conjunction, 7 January 2028
Mars and Mercury are just 1° apart — they fit in one binocular view.
Supermoon: Wolf Moon, 12 January 2028
The full Moon is near perigee (360,268 km), so it looks up to 7% bigger and 15% brighter than average.
Partial lunar eclipse 12 January 2028
Visible wherever the Moon is up: the Americas, Europe and Africa.
Mercury at greatest eastern elongation, 18 January 2028
Mercury is 18.8° from the Sun — the best time to find it low in the west after sunset.
Quadrantids meteor shower 2027
Peak night, up to 120 meteors an hour under a dark sky. The Moon is almost out of the way — a good year.