![]() And give your eyes about 20 to 30 minutes to adjust to the darkness – without looking at your phone – so meteors are easier to spot. Make sure you have a chair or blanket so you can look straight up. If you live in an urban area, you may want to drive to a place that isn’t littered with city lights that will obstruct your view.įind an open area with a wide view of the sky. Meteor Shower Calendar Quadrantids (QUA) Lyrids (LYR) eta Aquariids (ETA) Southern delta Aquariids (SDA) alpha Capricornids (CAP) Perseids (PER) Orionids. The Lyrid shower is one of the oldest known, with records of visible meteors going back 2,700 years, according to EarthSky. Lyrid gets its name from the Lyra constellation. The comet loses pieces of itself that go flying into our upper atmosphere at 110,000 miles per hour. The shower occurs this time each year when Earth’s orbit crosses paths with that of Comet Thatcher. Typically, the Lyrid meteor shower can showcase between 10 and 20 meteors per hour during the peak, but it’s difficult to estimate how many will be visible. The best time to watch the show would be after midnight and before dawn, weather permitting, of course. The Lyrids were created by the debris from a comet named Thatcher, this comet takes about 415 years to orbit around our Sun. Some of them have trails that glow for seconds after the meteor has disappeared. Lyrid Meteor Shower 2019 is active between April 16 and April 25 yearly and it tends to peak around April 22 or April 23. That will also be the best time to see slower, longer meteors that streak horizontally across the sky, called earthgrazers. Pink Moon set to illuminate the skies on Friday ![]() Pink moon rising this evening #RNLI #Bembridge #OMGB #IOW #moon Sienna Anderson/Soul Photography Tuesday evening in Bembridge Isle of Wight
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