☄️ Lyrids · peak Apr 23 · ~18/hr · 🌔 moon 88%
Sunday, April 14, 2097
– April 30, 2097
All day
Peak: April 23, 2097, around 00:00 UTC — up to about 18 meteors an hour under a dark sky. The Moon will be 88% lit: a bright Moon, which will wash out all but the brightest 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.
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