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I have captured these images for La Vanguardia Readers’ Photos of the first Lyrid meteorites of the season from Granollers de La Plana, in the Osona region.
The April Lyrids are a meteor shower that lasts approximately a dozen days each year. The radiant of this phenomenon is located in the constellation Lyra, near its brightest star, Vega.
The source of the meteor shower is dust particles falling off the long-period comet C/1861 G1 Thatcher. The April Lyrids are the strongest annual meteor shower from the debris of a long-period comet.
April Lyrid counts typically range from 5 to 20 meteors per hour, with an average of about 10.
Occasionally, the shower intensifies when the planets direct the dust trail from a comet’s revolution into Earth’s path, an event that occurs about once every 60 years.
