Orlando, Florida, USA

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Orlando, Florida, USA

Meteor shower

Lyrids

Best around 4:24 AM

Very LowExcellent
9:24 PM Dark enough
12:09 AM Moonrise
4:24 AM Best
5:22 AM Too light
Estimate
~8/hour
from a dark spot here
Radiant climbs to
75°
Under a perfect sky
18/hour
Moonlight
55% lost
Speed
49 km/s

Where they come from: Comet Thatcher (C/1861 G1)

Dust from Comet Thatcher, which comes round about every 415 years and was last near the Sun in 1861. Chinese astronomers recorded the Lyrids in 687 BC, the oldest shower on record.

The estimate is how many you might really see from a dark spot here, allowing for how high the shower climbs and for moonlight. "Under a perfect sky" is the best case. The bar also counts the forecast cloud at the best time, so a clouded-out night sits at the bottom, as does rain on the radar now.

Usually steady, but now and then it has a short burst of many more.

That morning

Sunrise

6:53 AM

6:53 AM

6:29 AM Blue hour
6:53 AM Sunrise
7:25 AM Golden hour ends

Sunset

7:54 PM

7:54 PM

Too far ahead for a weather forecast. These are the sunrise and sunset times - they will not change.

7:22 PM Golden hour
7:54 PM Sunset
8:19 PM Blue hour ends

Moon

Waning gibbous

83% lit

12:09 AM – 10:52 AM

ESE WSW
12:09 AM Moonrise
12:30 AM 4°
5:30 AM Highest, 39°
10:31 AM 4°
10:52 AM Moonset

Between the two 4° marks the Moon is clear of haze and most of what stands on the horizon.

Timetable

  • Morning blue hour 6:29 AM–6:53 AM
  • Sunrise 6:53 AM
  • Morning golden hour 6:53 AM–7:25 AM
  • Morning best color 7:04 AM
  • Moonset 9:48 AM
  • Evening golden hour 7:22 PM–7:54 PM
  • Evening best color 7:44 PM
  • Sunset 7:54 PM
  • Evening blue hour 7:54 PM–8:19 PM
  • Fully dark 9:17 PM–5:29 AM
  • Dark, no Moon 9:17 PM–12:17 AM

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