Features
Nigerian skies, in 2017 – Part 6
10 years agoIndeed, IMO’s Alastair McBeath describes the Lyrids as “a medium strength shower [ZHR 18] that usually produces good rates for three nights centered on the [22nd] maximum”.
Sky-watchers have been enjoying the Lyrids, longer than any other meteor shower—with the earliest recorded observation, reports Francis Reddy, in Astronomy Magazine, being 687 B.C.