The April Lyrids (LYR) peaked this year on the morning of the 22nd.
There were few visual reports, but the UK Meteor Network’s cameras detected around 5000 single-station detections leading to 436 confirmed Lyrids. 193 cameras made detections from Sark to Shetland, and one meteor was detected by twenty nine cameras.
The brightest detection had a visual magnitude of -4.1 and several other very bright events were detected. The charts below shows the number of confirmed Lyrids per hour over the period from 19th to 24th April, and the distribution of magnitudes observed.
The Lyrids are caused by dust from Comet C/1861 G1 Thatcher, which has an orbital period of around 461 years and is currently over 100 AU from Earth.
All charts and pictures courtesy of the UK Meteor Network. Fuller report available here.
