Best New Year’s gift ever! EarthSky moon calendar for 2019

Quadrantid meteor (solid line) and airplane (dashed line, from the plane’s blinking lights) – caught near midnight on the night of January 3-4, 2019, the peak night of the Quadrantid shower – from Joel Coombs in Las Vegas, Nevada.

“Another Quadrantid, same place as the first,” wrote Joel Coombs. He captured this meteor several hours after the one above. Thanks for the photos, Joel!

Eliot Herman captured this whole sky view of a Quadrantid meteor over Tucson, Arizona, on the morning of January 4, 2019. See a wide angle view here. Thank you, Eliot!

Quadrantid meteor streaks past the Big Dipper on the morning of January 4, 2019, as captured by Annie Lewis near Madrid, Spain. Thanks, Annie!
Bottom line: A few photos of 2019 Quadrantid meteors, from the EarthSky community.