The last 10 nights of April saw the peak of one major shower (the Lyrids) and the beginning of activity for May’s only major (the Eta Aquariids).
Obs Date(UT) Time TOT SPO ANT SLE PPU LYR NCY HVI ETA SAL3 2011-04-31 08h 29m 8 5 1 - - - 0 - 2 ALLS 2011-04-30 08h 44m 6 4 0 - - - 0 - 2 SAL3 2011-04-29 08h 52m 10 9 0 - - - 0 - 0 ALLS 2011-04-29 09h 20m 4 4 0 - - - 0 - 0 SAL3 2011-04-28 02h 58m 9 7 2 - 0 - 0 - 0 ALLS 2011-04-28 08h 59m 7 4 2 - 0 - 0 - 1 SAL3 2011-04-27 08h 57m 10 8 2 - 0 - 0 - - ALLS 2011-04-27 09h 28m 3 2 1 - 0 - 0 - - VISH 2011-04-27 01h 00m 3 1 - - - - - - 2 (LM=6.0) SAL3 2011-04-26 08h 41m 11 6 3 - 0 - 0 2 - ALLS 2011-04-26 08h 56m 8 7 1 - 0 - 0 0 - SAL3 2011-04-25 09h 01m 4 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 - ALLS 2011-04-25 09h 29m 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 - SAL3 2011-04-24 04h 40m 13 7 0 0 0 5 1 0 - ALLS 2011-04-24 09h 34m 12 6 1 0 0 5 0 0 - SAL3 2011-04-23 09h 04m 17 8 0 1 0 8 0 0 - ALLS 2011-04-23 09h 35m 8 4 0 0 0 3 1 0 - HERM 2011-04-23 01h 29m 5 1 1 0 0 3 0 0 - SAL3 2011-04-22 09h 07m 15 3 1 0 0 8 1 2 - ALLS 2011-04-22 09h 37m 11 0 1 0 0 9 1 0 - HERM 2011-04-22 06h 07m 14 4 4 1 0 5 0 0 - VISH 2011-04-22 01h 00m 2 1 - - - 1 - - - (LM=5.0) SAL3 2011-04-21 09h 09m 12 6 0 0 0 5 1 - - ALLS 2011-04-21 09h 39m 8 5 0 0 0 2 1 - - SAL3 - SALSA3 camera in Tucson (Carl Hergenrother) ALLS - Near all-sky camera in Tucson (Carl Hergenrother) VIST - Visual observations from Tucson (Carl Hergenrother) VISH - Visual observations from Hermosillo (Salvador Aguirre) HERM - PARENI camera in Hermosillo (Salvador Aguirre) SDG - Camera in San Diego operated by Bob Lunsford Time - Total amount of time each camera looked for meteors TOT - Total number of meteors detected SPO - Sporadics (meteors not affiliated with any particular meteor shower) ANT - Antihelions SLE - Sigma Leonids PPU - Pi Puppids LYR - Lyrids NCY - Nu Cygnids HVI - h Viriginds ETA - Eta Aquariids
The Transient Sky - Comets, Asteroids, Meteors 