correct but the jan2009 notes also mention
"The New Year opens with the short, sharp
maximum of the Quadrantids on Saturday January
3. Timing isn’t ideal for the British Isles,
with maximum expected around mid-day. However,
watches in the last couple of hours of the
night of January 2–3 may catch the early part
of the rise towards maximum in dark skies,
with the radiant, in northern Boötes not far
from Alkaid at the end of the Plough’s ‘handle’,
high in the eastern sky. Some activity
should still be evident in early evening on January
3–4, but at this time the radiant is low in
the northwest, and the first quarter Moon will
make the sky unfavourably bright. Quadrantid
meteors are quite slow, and in the hours immediately
after maximum can be bright, sometimes
showing strong blue or green colours."
so there still might be a chance of seeing them
(, Fri 2 Jan 2009, 23:19, Reply)