Didn't see any, but my camera caught quite a few, including some nice
fireballs.
http://www.cloudbait.com/science/lyrid2012.html
Chris
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Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
http://www.cloudbait.com
On 4/23/2012 2:33 PM, Linton Rohr wrote:
Wondering if anyone else saw any Lyrid meteors over the weekend.
I was out at a dark-sky star party Friday night, about 90 miles north of
L.A., and saw an amazingly long-lasting meteor around 9:30pm slowly
streak across the northern sky, from east to west. It traveled parallel
to the horizon, between the Big and Little Dippers, emanating from
around Bootes and finally terminating in Auriga. Almost as bright as
Venus, it must have lasted 6-8 seconds and covered 100-120 degrees of
sky. It began to produce a long, green ion trail after about 1 second of
incandescence. Truly incredible. I was surprised no one else in my group
saw it. Perhaps if I had yelled out "meteor!... north!", instead of just
"wow... wow... wow...". ;^)
Around 2:00am there was another impressive one, though definitely not a
Lyrid. It was at least as bright as Venus, but only lasted a second or
two. It was falling from Corvis, and fragmented into multiple pieces
which fell away still glowing. Nice.
Sky conditions were very good - seeing, as well as transparency. I
suspect Saturday night was even better, since we had a layer of fog over
the city.
Linton
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