Starry Starry Night

On the evening of January 3rd or the pre-dawn hours of January 4th, was to be the beginning of the Quadrantid meteor shower. We decided to stay up and try to catch it in a stop motion video.

Over a two hour period, which was supposed to be during the peak of the meteor shower in our time zone, we captured not one single falling star. We did, however, capture 23 air planes flying through just the camera's field of vision. That says nothing of the ones all around us, outside the camera's field of vision. Why is there so much traffic up there in the middle of the night?! It is totally insane.

We did each see two falling stars that were not captured on the camera. One big one that we both saw and two separate smaller ones that we saw on our own. So I can attest that there were at least all of 3 falling stars during that two hour period. And for our efforts, we just ended up cold, tired and disappointed.

I checked a bunch of youtube videos others had posted after the fact and found that many others had the same results as we did in other parts of the country (although, some supposed that the airplanes going across, were falling stars). Only one person seemed to have captured a halfway decent meteor shower.