Lyrids and the first mosquito

Lyrids: 13 meteors in 2 h · limiting mag. 5.8

After a winter of showers the Lyrids are a gentle reintroduction: ten to fifteen an hour in a good year, from a radiant near Vega that is high by the small hours.

It was mild and still, and the first mosquito of the year found me at about one in the morning. I had no repellent, because it was April.

Count

Thirteen Lyrids and five sporadics in two hours. One bright Lyrid, around magnitude minus one, ran almost the full length of Hercules. The nights are getting short quickly; by June there will be no proper darkness at all.