The good news is that you don’t need any special equipment to have a chance to see a meteor, but you may need a little patience.
First, with winter ahead, make sure you’re well-wrapped and warm from the elements. Make yourself comfortable in a garden chair or sun lounger, in as dark an area as possible, and give your eyes 15 to 20 minutes to adjust.
Meteors can be seen anywhere in the sky, but are most visible about two-thirds of the way above the horizon, where the atmosphere is thin.
The point in the sky from which the meteors appear is called the radiant and the quality of the display is measured by how many meteors are visible each hour – called the xanthel hourly rate.
The Radiant for the Quadrantids is in the former constellation Quadrans Muralis – hence the shower name – near the Plough. Xanthal velocities can approach 120 m/h, although this peak lasts only a few hours.
Fortunately, around peak viewing days, a waxing moon sets in the evening and thus spoils the event with additional light pollution. Reduces the likelihood of