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THESE meteors will return this year at a favourable period, the moon being near new and only visible as a slender crescent for a short time before sunrise. If the atmosphere should prove clear during the night following Saturday, April 21, a number of Lyrids will probably be seen. The shower is likely to reach its best after midnight, when the radiant at 271° + 33° will have attained a sufficiently high altitude to favour the visible distribution of its meteors.
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DENNING, W. The April Meteors. Nature 73, 560 (1906). https://doi.org/10.1038/073560a0
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