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The best time to look for the Draconids is in the evening, after nightfall during the shower peak around Oct 8 , when the shower's radiant — the Draco constellation — is highest in the sky. Although peak viewing days are typically your best shot to see the sky filled with bright strea...
Although the Quadrantids Meteor Shower radiant from the constellation of Bootes, they are not named after the constellation. They are named after a now a no longer constellation Quadrans Muralis (Mural Quadrant) which is now consumed into the constellations of Bootes and Draco. The original const...
That's because the constellation Draco, the dragon— the shower's "radiant," or point from which the meteors appear to radiate — is highest in the sky shortly after nightfall. Editor's note: If you snap an amazing photo of a Draconid meteor or any other night-sky sight and you'd lik...
but from the maiden was born something like a bull, to testify to her seduction by Jupiter. If any one asks who narrates this, then we shall quote the well-known senarian verse of a Tarentine poet which antiquity sings, saying “Taurus draconem genuit, et taurum draco” [“The bull ...
upon the door-posts; and he often laid his tender side nightlong on the hard threshold, sadly reproaching the obdurate bolt. Deafer than the deep sea that rises high when the rainy Constellation of the Kids is setting; harder than the iron which the fire of Noricum refines; more hard ...