☄️ Lyrids · peak Apr 22 · ~18/hr · 🌘 moon 28%

Tuesday, April 14, 1903 – April 30, 1903 All day

Peak: April 22, 1903, around 06:00 UTC — up to about 18 meteors an hour under a dark sky. The Moon will be 28% lit: some moonlight, which will hide the fainter meteors. Meteors seem to come from Lyra; the debris is from Comet Thatcher (C/1861 G1). Among the oldest showers on record: Chinese astronomers saw them in 687 BC. Peak times and rates: the International Meteor Organization's working list.