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In Las Fotos de los Lectores de La Vanguardia we can enjoy the rain of Lyrids, although it was somewhat difficult to see them since the sky was cloudy, in this case, in Manlleu (Osona), at the time these images were captured.
The April Lyrids are a meteor shower that lasts from April 16 to 26 of each year. The radiant of this phenomenon is in the constellation Lyra, near its brightest star, Vega.
The source of the meteor shower is dust particles emitted from the long-period comet C/1861 G1 Thatcher. The April Lyrids are the strongest annual meteor shower from the debris of a long-lived comet.
April Lyrid counts typically range from 5 to 20 meteors per hour, averaging around 10.
Occasionally, the shower intensifies as the planets direct the trail of dust from a comet’s revolution toward Earth’s path, an event that occurs about once every 60 years.
