The first scientific publication based on the NELIOTA project was accepted in Astronomy & Astrophysics on January 2, 2018 and is titled “NELIOTA: First temperature measurement of lunar impact flashes”. The paper reports the first scientific results from NELIOTA, in particular a direct analytical calculation of temperatures of 10 lunar impact flashes. The resulting values for the flash temperatures are in the range ~1,600-3,100 K, in agreement with theoretical values. The impactor masses are computed to have values in the range between ~100 g and ~50 kg.