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A quick annotation here. I didn't have time to do it yesterday, and I still don't have my software, so I can't do much. I'm adding a picture of the False Comet in Scorpius, so you know what I'm talking about. The picture of the False Comet is by Jose Carlos Diniz.


[float=left][attachment=1]Lyrid of the lake Jeff Dai annotated.png[/attachment][c][size=85][color=#0040FF]Lyrid of the Lake. Image: Jeff Dai.[/color][/size][/c][/float][float=right][attachment=0]The False Comet by Jose Carlos Diniz.png[/attachment][c][size=85][color=#0040FF]The False Comet. Image: Jose Carlos Diniz.[/color][/size][/c][/float]
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Ann

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Most of us, are Lyrids! And that's if we're lucky! A brief, sometimes even brilliant, flash: and we are gone!
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Speak for yourself. I'm an Orionid!

Most of us, are Lyrids! And that's if we're lucky! A brief, sometimes even brilliant, flash: and we are gone!

The photographer, Jeff Dai, had a picture of the morning planet lineup (Venus, Jupiter, Mars and Saturn, plus the Moon) over this same lake as the front page at [url=https://spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=24&month=04&year=2022]Spaceweather.com on April 24, 2022[/url].

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Beautiful Lyrid meteror over lake Nian in China! 8-) really lights it up! :mrgreen:

[url=https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap220428.html] [img]https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/S_220428.jpg[/img] [size=150]Lyrid of the Lake[/size][/url]

[b] Explanation: [/b] In the early hours of April 24 this bright [url=https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/everything-you-need-to-know-lyrid-meteor-shower/]Lyrid meteor[/url] flashed along the central Milky Way. For a moment, it cast a bright reflection across Lake Nian, Yunnan province, China. [url=https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/asteroids-comets-and-meteors/meteors-and-meteorites/lyrids/in-depth/]The annual Lyrid meteor shower[/url], one of the oldest known, is active in late April, as our fair planet plows through dust left along the orbit of long-period comet Thatcher. The trail of the bright [url=https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap211012.html]fireball[/url] points back toward [url=https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap200512.html]the shower's radiant[/url] in the constellation Lyra high in the northern springtime sky and off the top of the frame. Just rising in that starry sky, light from a third quarter moon also cast a glow on the peaceful waters of the lake.


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