I hope you got some meteors under your belts this morning. Early results for the Lyrid meteor shower show numbers increasing toward a peak late last night. The last data point in the International Meteor Organization’s activity graph indicates about 26 per hour were seen around 11 p.m. Central Time April 21. Maximum may have happened sometime after that, but we won’t know until more observations are in.
Bill Cooke of NASA’s Meteoroid Environment Office, which operates a series of meteor-watching cameras called the All-sky Fireball Network, reports that 21 Lyrid fireballs were recorded. He offers that activity may continue into tonight, so if your weather didn’t cooperate this morning, consider a second look.