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Lyrids Peak Overnight Across Latin America With Best Viewing Before Dawn

Pre-dawn viewing favors northern latitudes, giving skywatchers their best odds from dark sites.

Multiple exposures were combined in camera to produce this image showing stars illuminating the sky on a clear night in London on April 20, 2020. The clear skies created by the New Moon coincide with the Lyrid meteor shower, an annual display caused by the Earth passing through a cloud of debris from a comet called C/186 Thatcher.
Lluvia de estrellas Líridas 2026: ¿cómo ver hasta 20 meteoros por hora en su punto máximo desde América Latina el 22 de abril?
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Overview

  • The meteor shower reaches its 2026 peak overnight Wednesday into early Thursday, with the best window around 2:00 to 5:30 a.m. local time and typical rates near 10 to 20 meteors per hour.
  • NASA cautions that brief outbursts can spike near 100 meteors per hour, though such bursts are rare and unpredictable.
  • Viewing is stronger in the Northern Hemisphere, and Argentina’s planetarium team expects only partial visibility mainly in the north with very little to none in Buenos Aires.
  • Observers should head to dark locations, give their eyes 20 to 30 minutes to adjust, avoid phone light, and benefit from an early-setting crescent moon that leaves darker skies this year.
  • The Lyrids come from dust shed by comet C/1861 G1 Thatcher and appear to radiate from Lyra near the bright star Vega in a shower recorded since 687 B.C.