NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS

ESA extends the NELIOTA project to 2021

We are happy to announce the extension of the NELIOTA project to January 2021. Given the successful operation of the project and the detection of 55 lunar impact flashes to date, ESA has decided to continue the project by funding 2 additional years of lunar monitoring observations with the Kryoneri telescope in order to increase the impact statistics. The following press releases published today by ESA: “Learning from Lunar Lights” and Andor Technology: “Andor Zyla sCMOS Astronomy cameras capture lunar impacts” describe the main results of the project so far, as published in Xilouris et al. (2018, A&A, 619, 141) and announces the project extension. The image shows the location on the Moon of the 55 impact flashes detected to date by NELIOTA.