Seen many Lyrids?

[jonathan]

I sat outside for about an hour tonight, saw three decent shooting stars...  one NE to SW with a green tail, one S to N with an orange tail, and a long white one with no colour to its tail on the other side of the sky, NE to SW overhead.

Was getting rather chilly and have work in the morning so called it a night at 11.30pm, three good sightings in an hour is not bad going really, might see some tomorrow if I can be bothered going out.

[MAN or ASTROMAN]

Just come back in after spending about 45 minutes observing.Not a sausage(there's a surprise)! Did have a nice view of Saturn and Scorpio though.

[ronin]

They are not a heavy shower, Wiki says 18 per hour at their max, another site say 15. So not a lot and like all you have to be there at the peak.

Looks like we do not get a shower with reasonable numbers for some time, and that is predicted numbers.

I normally manage not a thing for any shower I go out to look at.

Getting the idea that they are all made up, some of the "showers" give 2 or 3 per hour - that has to be just the earth sort of randomly bumping into stuff, cannot see how they classify values that low as a "shower". :eek:

[astronymonkey]

I had about 15mins looking last night but didnt see anything. The sky was nice and clear but with a lot of moisture in the air as shown by my torch beam. Moon, venus and jupiter all looking good though.

Cheers

[Nathan_Pembs]

Was out for an hour last night, spotted a couple. Very bright one around 11:30pm

[TractionMan]

Not yet, but I'm planning to pull an all nighter when I get home from work (at about 22.30 UTC). The weather forecast is looking pretty promising.

[SteveNickolls]

Here's hoping the weather stays kind for viewing some Lyrids later tonight. I've also got the system running detecting reflections off the GRAVES radar in France and it will be interesting what numbers are detected this way above background levels :-)

Best of luck to everyone viewing tonight.

Cheers,

Steve

[melsky]

Caught this one last night from Oxfordshire.

Mel

[Manok101]

I saw one, I had no idea they were happening though!

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[BobSki]

Haven't had the chance yet but will be out tonight hoping to catch a few.

[kev100]

Spent a couple of hours last night but didn't see a single one. Gonna try again tonight.

Kev

[scarp15]

Saw a few on Tuesday night whilst observing at a dark location. Individual and very occasional, became a little more consistent after 1am, one particular bright white meteor was quite a spectacle. 

[ronin]

Melsky that looks more like an iridium flare, it is sort of symetric.

What time was it and where in Oxen?

Saw 1 tonight, that came from the Lyra area.

Then saw a bigger brighter one from Leo - that one was big and long, looked like it broke into 3 pieces as it crossed the sky.

Still trying to get warm from standing outside.

[Bart]

Another disappointing meteor shower. Bed

Barry

[Nathan_Pembs]

Bright green fireball in the south just now, heading down towards the horizon. Totally different direction to what I'd expect

[cotterless45]

Been out for 5 hours, not a meteor in sight. Beautiful night though, best and clearest for weeks. Finished with a lovely view of Saturn. Don't think I've seen Vega sitting in a sea of stars from here. Overhead was just pitch black,

Nick.

[Nathan_Pembs]

I agree, very clear here too, best I've seen for a long time. Shame we spent it waiting for a poor show

[SteveNickolls]

Saw just the one at 11.59 PM, and then increasing amounts of streaky cloud. This morning we have quite thick mist here. Hoping the radio results will be better.

Cheers,

Steve

[astronymonkey]

Thick mist for me from about 10pm onwards. Nothing seen .......

[Relpet]

I must have beginner's luck.  Having just bought a second-hand 4" Newtonian I took it out on the first clear night here in south-west France and was idly scanning the sky through a 27mm lens when two meteors flashed across,  I didn't even know about the Lyrids until I found this post!

[KJ Dalley]

Good viewing in Cornwall from 0400h this morning. Lost count but was mid to high teens. Lots of flashes around the constellation Lyra but the big streaks across the sky were in totally different directions. Not as spectacular as I was hoping for but by the sounds of things on here I possibly had a better view of things than most. Dawn does break remarkably early around here at this time of year!

[bejay1957]

Spent an hour outside on Tuesday night without seeing anything I could say was a Lyrid - only a couple of sporadics; it was cloudy here last night.

[LukeSkywatcher]

I completely forgot they were happening.

[TractionMan]

I spotted 7 Lyrids last night, as well as a sporadic going the opposite direction. None of them were particularly bright or lasted long though. Still nice to see them. Got to see a very, VERY bright Iridium flare as well. Probably the brightest I've seen so far. 

[BobSki]

I saw one going in the opposite direction to the rest. I didn't realise it was a "sporadic"......... Which constellation do they come from?