Lyrid Meteor Shower Peaks this Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, April 21-22

If you stay up to watch past midnight on the morning of April 22, the crescent moon will have set, the radiant will be high in the sky and you should see a good display of meteors. The peak number of meteors per hour tends to run 10-20 in a moonless sky, not a huge number but certainly worth looking for.

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A Lyrid meteor streaks through the sky as captured by Simon Waldram.