NELIOTA Status
3359 days since start of observations
324.8 hours of lunar observations
255.68 TB of lunar images
211 Lunar impact flash events
NELIOTA impact flashes

Location of the impact flashes detected so far by NELIOTA.

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Publications

Refereed Publications

  1. Mare versus highland lunar impact flash light curve dichotomy, D. Athanasopoulos, A. Liakos, A.Z. Bonanos, D. Koschny, O. Sykioti, M. Devogèle, J. L. Cano, R. Moissl 2026, A&A Letters, submitted (arXiv:2605.19635)

  2. NELIOTA: New results and updated statistics after 6.5 years of lunar impact flash monitoring, A. Liakos, A.Z. Bonanos, E.M. Xilouris, D. Koschny, I. Bellas-Velidis, P. Boumis, A. Maroussis, R. Moissl 2024, A&A, 687, 14

  3. NELIOTA: Methods, statistics and results for meteoroids impacting the Moon, A. Liakos, A.Z. Bonanos, E.M. Xilouris, D. Koschny, I. Bellas-Velidis, P. Boumis, V. Charmandaris, A. Dapergolas, A. Fytsilis, A. Maroussis, R. Moissl 2020, A&A, 633, 112

  4. NELIOTA: The wide-field, high-cadence lunar monitoring system at the prime focus of the Kryoneri telescope, E.M. Xilouris, A.Z. Bonanos, I. Bellas-Vellidis, P. Boumis, A. Dapergolas, A. Maroussis, A. Liakos, I. Alikakos, V. Charmandaris, G. Dimou, A. Fytsilis, M. Kelley, D. Koschny, V. Navarro, K. Tsiganis, K. Tsinganos 2018, A&A, 619, 141

  5. NELIOTA: First temperature measurement of lunar impact flashes, A.Z. Bonanos, C. Avdellidou, A. Liakos, E.M. Xilouris, A. Dapergolas, D. Koschny, I. Bellas-Velidis, P. Boumis, V. Charmandaris, A. Fytsilis, A. Maroussis 2018, A&A, 612, 76

 

Conference Proceedings

  1. Lunar impact flash results and space surveillance activities at Kryoneri Observatory, A. Liakos, A.Z. Bonanos, E.M. Xilouris, D. Koschny, P. Boumis, I. Bellas-Velidis, R. Moissl, A. Maroussis, S. Basilakos, C. Kontoes 2023, Proceedings of the "2nd NEO and Debris Detection Conference" (arXiv:2303.00670)

  2. NELIOTA Lunar Impact Flash Detection and Event Validation, A. Liakos, A. Bonanos, E. Xilouris, I. Bellas-Velidis, P. Boumis, V. Charmandaris, A. Dapergolas, A. Fytsilis, A. Maroussis, D. Koschny, R. Moissl, V. Navarro 2019, Proceedings of the "ESA NEO and Debris Detection Conference - Exploiting Synergies"

  3. NELIOTA: ESA's new NEO lunar impact monitoring project with the 1.2m telescope at the National Observatory of Athens, A.Z. Bonanos, M. Xilouris, P. Boumis, I. Bellas-Velidis, A. Maroussis, A. Dapergolas, A. Fytsilis, V. Charmandaris, K. Tsiganis, K. Tsinganos 2016, Asteroids: New Observations, New Models, Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, IAU Symposium, Volume 318, pp. 327-329

  4. NELIOTA: ESA's new NEO lunar impact monitoring project with the 1.2m telescope at the National Observatory of Athens, A. Bonanos, A. Liakos, M. Xilouris, P. Boumis, I. Bellas-Velidis, A. Marousis, A. Dapergolas, A. Fytsilis, A. Noutsopoulos, V. Charmandaris, K. Tsiganis, K. Tsinganos, S. Els, D. Koschny, T. Lock, V. Navarro 2016, Proceedings of the SPIE, Vol. 9911, id. 991122, p. 9