The bigger material particles that give rise to the Quadrantids produce brighter blasts of colour and light that may last longer than a typical meteor streak.
“Quadrans Muralis,” an extinct constellation situated between Bootes and Draco, is the radiant for Quadrantids, the location in the sky from whence the meteors seem to emanate.
Since this part of the sky is relatively low in the northwest in the evening, the best time to see the Quadrantids is before dawn in the Northern Hemisphere.
However, the AMS reports that when darkness falls, the sky dips 40 degrees below the northern celestial pole before starting to slowly climb into the northeastern sky.
