The annual Lyrid meteor shower is expected to peak on the night of Saturday, 21 April.The best time being after midnight (1:00 a.m. if you're in a daylight-savings zone) when the earth turns into the shower.
Thanks for the heads up (so to speak). We will be having clear sky’s here for the first time in weeks.
If you have cable and Turner Classic MOvie channel a special showing will occur at 2:00AM Eastern Standard Time. Set your recorders for
Plan 9 From Outer Space (1959) Aliens bring the dead to life to conquer the Earth. Cast: Bela Lugosi, Tor Johnson, Vampira. Dir: Edward D. Wood, Jr. BW-79 mins, TV-PG
sky shower ping
The meteors are bits of debris shed by a comet called Thatcher. They hit Earth's atmosphere at high speed and burn up, producing glowing streaks. Discovered in 1861, Thatcher takes 415 years to orbit the Sun, venturing almost four times farther than Neptune's orbit at one end and a bit closer to the Sun than Earth at the other.
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Saw one! Fairly bright and not fast. This is about the end of astronomny for the summer. At local midnight (2 AM) the sky is fairly bright to the north and by 5 it is already brightening everywhere.