EarthSky News - Apr 17 - Plan for a Meteor Shower This Weekend

April 17 Plan for a Meteor Shower This Weekend by:

Help EarthSky keep going Like these emails? We need your help to keep them going. Please donate now in our annual fund-raiser. Prefer PayPal or to send a check? Go here. All you need to know: Lyrid meteors This shower is coming up this week, and especially this weekend. Saturday morning, April 22, is the likely peak. Try April 21 and 23 as well. The moon is out of the way! Mars near Pleiades cluster at nightfall Mars and Pleiades star cluster - aka Seven Sisters - in the same binocular field this week. Closest on or near April 22. Watch space debris conference online Concerned about space debris? Watch the opening address and more from the European Conference on Space Debris. It'll begin tomorrow - April 18 - at 09:30 CEST. Convert CEST to your time.

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Lyrid meteor shower has begun! The shower is active each year from about April 16 to 25. Predicted peak this year is the morning of April 22. Photo by Stefan Nilsson - aka digitaliz.se - in Åhus, Sweden.

Mars near Pleiades cluster at nightfall The nearby star Aldebaran is brighter than Mars and also reddish in color. Let it guide you to Mars and the Pleiades this week. Submit your photo to EarthSky here!

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