Lyrid Meteors:

[yeti monster]

Following the heads up, I popped out onto the helideck where it proved to be reasonably clear, Vega bright above me I made myself comfy and sheilded as much light as I could from my eyes and spent about 30 minutes watching.

I saw dozens, very subtle, they are, almost as if my eyes were playing tricks on me, but no doubt about it. Radiating from Lyra, a few couple of bright streaks, a few bright specks where they were obviously coming straight down and a lot of really faint ones. I could have stayed out longer but need to get back to bed for a couple of hours... very nice but nothing like the other meteor showers I have seen.

[QldLiz]

Wow, thats a lot of meteors, well done!!

I was also out for 1 1/2 hrs, taking some planet pics, but was keeping a look out for some Lyrids.

Sky was very light with a nearly full Moon, and I only saw 1 meteor, which came from the south.

Am sure if I settled into a chair and just looked for meteors I would have seen a few more.

[yeti monster]

Most were very faint, I almost ignored them as tricks of the light, but they were so frequent that I realised they were actually there. Sometimes I'd see 3 or 4 simultaneously, radiating from Lyra. There were only a few that 'caught' my eye as meteors usually do.

[JB80]

I'm going out to cover up the security lights that I can't disable now in hope of catching some either tonight or tomorrow. Shame about the moon being so bright though.

[Hobbes]

Just saw an absolute cracker coming straight out of Lyra - covered out 1/5th of the sky leaving a faint dusty trail - spectacular!

[Adz]

Ah so that explains why I caught so many, thanks for the info

My dad beat my count this time...

[Stargazing_Cliff]

Just saw an absolute cracker coming straight out of Lyra - covered out 1/5th of the sky leaving a faint dusty trail - spectacular!

I seen that was spectacular first time seen meteor

[JimBobs63]

Hi,

I saw a few last Wednesday night (20th) under dark skies in SW Wales. Back in SW London now so little chance of seeing any more other than very bright ones...!!

Jim

[timmyp]

I managed to see one very bright one, and what I thought were some more fainter ones. Can't wait till some of the "busier" shows later in the year.

[Macavity]

Ah, so that's what it was on my M57 image. (Sadly) I deleted the frame...