April 22 marked the peak of the Lyrid meteor shower. The Lyrids are considered a major shower though, in reality, they are the weakest of the major showers. You might even be able to call them the strongest minor shower.
The Lyrids were produced by comet C/1861 G1 (Thatcher), a comet seen only in 1861. It is a high inclination (~80º) long-period comet with a period of ~400 years. The shower is also prone to outbursts though none was predicted for or reported this year. On the April 22 UT, a total of 21 Lyrids were observed. The star chart below shows the radiant of the Lyrids halfway between Lyra and the keystone of Hercules.
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Obs Date(UT) Time TOT SPO ANT SLE PPU LYR ETA SAL 2014-04-30 09h 13m 16 12 1 - - - 3 SAL 2014-04-29 09h 23m 13 11 2 - - - 0 SAL 2014-04-28 09h 09m 12 10 1 - 0 - 1 SAL 2014-04-27 09h 01m 16 13 2 - 0 - 1 SAL 2014-04-26 08h 03m 6 4 0 2 0 - 0 SAL 2014-04-25 09h 07m 12 10 2 0 0 0 0 SAL 2014-04-24 08h 15m 11 8 1 0 0 2 0 SAL 2014-04-23 07h 39m 15 8 1 2 0 4 0 SAL 2014-04-22 09h 08m 30 8 1 0 0 21 0 SAL 2014-04-21 09h 12m 14 9 1 1 0 3 0 SAL 2014-04-20 07h 54m 15 13 0 1 0 1 0 SAL 2014-04-19 06h 19m 5 4 0 0 0 1 0 SAL 2014-04-18 00h 00m "Clouds All Night" SAL 2014-04-17 08h 23m 11 7 2 1 0 1 - SAL 2014-04-16 09h 49m 17 13 3 1 0 0 - SAL - SALSA3 camera in Tucson (Carl Hergenrother) VIS - Visual observations from Tucson (Carl Hergenrother) 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 - AntihelionsZSE - Zeta Serpentids SLE - Sigma Leonids PPU - Pi Puppids LYR - Lyrids ETA - Eta Aquariids
The Transient Sky - Comets, Asteroids, Meteors 