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Thursday, April 21, 2022

Lyrid Meteor showers (April 21 - 22, 2022) - 10 per hour

 from ALMANAC.com (Old Farmer's Almanac)

The Lyrids reach their peak on the night of April 21–22, 2022, when you can expect to see an average of 10 meteors per hour in dark, clear skies. Rarely, the Lyrids produce surges of up to 100 meteors per hour. This meteor shower is visible from both the Northern and Southern Hemisphere, but is much more active in the Northern Hemisphere, where the meteors’ radiant is high in the sky.

This year, the Moon will be in a waning gibbous phase during the Lyrids’ peak, so the best viewing period will be between the late evening hours (around 9 P.M.) of April 21 and moonrise (around 2 A.M.) on April 22, 2022.

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