NELIOTA Status
2960 days since start of observations
283.36 hours of lunar observations
223.06 TB of lunar images
192 NEO lunar impact events
NELIOTA impact flashes

Location of the impact flashes detected so far by NELIOTA.

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News & Highlights

Second phase of NELIOTA lunar impact observations has ended

We announce the completion of the second phase of lunar impact observations in July 2023. The last two years of observations were funded by ESA via the CARMEN project and contributed 58 new, validated impact flashes. During the last 6.5 years of uninterrupted lunar monitoring, we have detected 187 impact flashes, which will be soon presented in a publication. Note that the ability to download data from the website will be paused by September 30. NELIOTA team members are involved in the science team of the LUMIO mission and will seek further funding from ESA in order to resume ground-based lunar monitoring observations with the Kryoneri telescope in 2024.

 

[20 September 2023]

Public release of the "Flash Detection Software"

We are pleased to announce the public release of the "Flash Detection Software", which was developed by the National Observatory of Athens for ESA. We invite both amateur and professional astronomers performing planetary observations with video cameras or fast-frame CMOS/CCDs to use it and provide feedback. The ultimate goal is to increase the observations of impact flashes and to enable the verification of impact flashes from multiple sites. The software was developed and tested for lunar impact flash observations, however, its use on planets (e.g. Jupiter, Mars) is encouraged. The software, which was developed by Stefanos Achlatis, Georgia Christofidi and Ivi Chatzi, is available here.

[13 March 2023]

Announcing the "Flash Detection Software"

The National Observatory of Athens has successfully developed the "Flash Detection Software", which is an open-source code for the detection of lunar impact flashes. The FDS team at the National Observatory of Athens developed the software over the past year, based on the expertise gained from the NELIOTA project, and made the final presentation to ESA on October 21, 2022. The FDS will soon be released to the public, so any amateur or professional astronomer can use it to detect impact flashes on the Moon. We expect the FDS to greatly increase the number of impact flashes detected not only on the Moon, but also on Jupiter. The FDS has been funded by ESA Contract No. 4000135574/21/NL/IB/gg.

 

[21 October 2022]

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