Bright moonlight will interfere with our viewing of this year’s Lyrid meteor shower, which is at peak activity tonight. Every year at this time, the earth travels through a portion of its orbit that is littered with bits of ice and dust left in the wake of a passing comet - the Lyrid meteors, so named because they seem to come out of the part of the sky near the constellation Lyra the Harp. It’s been a reliable shower, viewed by millions of people for many years. But today the moon is full, and when the full moon is up its brightness washes out the sky, making most of these shooting stars impossible to see. And the full moon will be in our sky the entire night, from sunset to sunrise. April’s full moon has many colorful names, such as, “the moon of greening grass; the planting corn moon, the leaf moon, or the flower moon. Today I would like to add “can’t see the meteor shower moon” to that list.
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