[meteorite-list] Lyrid meteors?

[Linton Rohr]

Wondering if anyone else saw any Lyrid meteors over the weekend.
I was out at a dark-sky star party Friday night, about 90 miles north of 
L.A., and saw an amazingly long-lasting meteor around 9:30pm slowly streak 
across the northern sky, from east to west. It traveled parallel to the 
horizon, between the Big and Little Dippers, emanating from around Bootes 
and finally terminating in Auriga. Almost as bright as Venus, it must have 
lasted 6-8 seconds and covered 100-120 degrees of sky. It began to produce a 
long, green ion trail after about 1 second of incandescence. Truly 
incredible. I was surprised no one else in my group saw it. Perhaps if I had 
yelled out "meteor!...  north!", instead of just "wow... wow... wow...". ;^)
Around 2:00am there was another impressive one, though definitely not a 
Lyrid. It was at least as bright as Venus, but only lasted a second or two. 
It was falling from Corvis, and fragmented into multiple pieces which fell 
away still glowing. Nice.
Sky conditions were very good - seeing, as well as transparency. I suspect 
Saturday night was even better, since we had a layer of fog over the city.
Linton