Meteor shower

[slotdrag]

Anyboby see it last night. We seen the first at 11:05pm then maybe three or four more in the next hour and a half.

[Kaptain K]

4 or 5 meteors in an hour and a half is not a "shower", unless they all had the same apparent origin (radiant). The background rate is around 10 an hour (from a dark-sky site).

That said, you could have seen the tail end of the Lyrid shower (April 15-25).

[aurora]

The Lyrids on Apr 22 had a zenith hourly rate of 15.

So actually seeing a peak of 4 or so in an hour might actually have been the peak.

I agree that the way to tell is to track the radiants back to Lyra -- if any of the meteors were going in a different direction those would be irratics.