Moon Flash

Visualizing lunar impact events

Hover over markers for explosions

Click on impact markers for details

Drag to rotate, scroll to zoom

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This program visualizes lunar impact flash events on a 3D Moon. Hover an impact to play an animation, and click an impact to see its details.

Data source:

• Event data comes from NELIOTA (National Observatory of Athens): https://neliota.astro.noa.gr/DataAccess (Event Details pages).
• In this project, events are stored locally under data/event-<id>/.
• The viewer reads event-<id>.csv (generated from the downloaded HTML pages) to populate the details panel.

Verification:

• Cross-check event coordinates and visibility with https://hdevillepoix.github.io/LIF_Aladin/.

Impact marker meaning:

• Color is based on the average of R (mag) and I (mag): low average magnitude is yellow, high average magnitude is red.
• Size is based on Duration (sec): longer duration events render larger markers.

Credit: the program is created by Andy Kong