In order to attain its goals, exoss project now is launching the lunar impact project – monitoring meteoroids impacts, using telescope observations of the non-illuminated side of the moon, looking for flashes that could...
Read MoreDuring this period the moon reaches it’s new phase on Sunday October 30th. At this time the moon will be located near the sun and will not be visible at night. As the week progresses the waxing crescent moon will enter the evening sky but will set long before the more active morning hours arrive.
Read MoreCAMS BeNeLux Orionids 2016 : one successful night Nearly all participants in the CAMS BeNeLux network had clear skies during the night October 22/23. More than 300 meteors were captured simultaneously that night. Besides the...
Read MoreThis video shows several fireballs recorded on 20-21 October 2016, during the peak of the Orionid meteor shower. These events are produced by fragments (meteoroids) from Comet Halley that hit the Earth’s atmosphere. The...
Read MoreThis fireball was observed over the South of Spain on Oct. 26, at 23:57 UT (1:57 local time on Oct. 27). The event was produced by a sporadic cometary meteoroid that hit the atmosphere at about 94000 km/h. The fireball began at...
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