Shooting star in your eye: How can you keep an eye on the guitars that are expected to reach peak activity on Sunday?
The Lyrids mark the beginning of the Northern Hemisphere's meteor season. It is expected that this meteor shower will peak during the night of Sunday the 21st to Monday the 22nd. It will be possible to observe up to 20 per hour.
The Lyrid family is back! This meteor shower, one of the first of the year, marks the beginning of the Northern Hemisphere's meteor season.
Every year from mid-April, Earth experiences the Lyrida Swarm. During the night of Sunday, April 21 to Monday, April 22, Lyres activity is expected to peak, with up to 20 meteors per hour. Some of them can be very bright, and even leave a beautiful trail behind.
This is one of the oldest observed cosmic phenomena of this kind: the first rains were observed in 687 BC. BC in China more than 2700 years ago.
How to monitor guitars?
In order not to miss anything from the show, you will have to go to bed (very) late or wake up (very) early: the best time to watch according to our colleagues at Science and the future It will be between three and four in the morning, when the night is dark.
It would also be better to be outside of big cities, due to light pollution. Those lucky enough to be in the countryside can hope to take advantage of this phenomenon by turning their gaze northeastward, toward the constellation Lyra. Don't panic if you're not an astronomy expert; The free Stellarium app (available on iOS and Android) will help you discover celestial objects.
If conditions are right and the sky is clear enough, there will be no need for telescopes, and meteors will be visible to the naked eye.
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