Hanukkah candles..

10-11.12.2009

A combination of determination, well-developed Cypros low and clear sky have led to 38 new Sprites and 14 new Meteors. The events were caught by the hunters Keren Mezuman, Eitan Amit & Naama Reicher from Tel-Aviv`s Team.

Synoptic, lightnings and clouds maps are attached in addition to some selected photos of the events. have fun...

Winter 2009 - 2010

New winter season – new campaign.

28-29.10.2009:

5 new sprites were caught by Roy Yaniv and Naama Reicher from the Tel Aviv team with a mutual cooperation of Jozsef Bor from the Hungarian sprite team that came to visit us in Israel.

The sprites were caught during the first Cyprus low of the year.

A synoptic map attached.

Perseids 2009

Thought not at peak time, we imaged 31 meteors from Mt. Hermon.
Here are two samples.

New papers

I'm happy to inform that we have two new papers.

Greenberg et al 2009 - ELF/VLF signatures of sprite-producing lightning discharges observed during the 2005 EuroSprite campaign

Yaniv et al 2009 - Calibration of CCD Cameras for Measurements of Sprites and Elves

Passover Sprites

We caught 3 sprites on the 8.4.2009. The synoptic conditions were Cyprus low pressure system.

25-26.2.2009 Event

5 Sprites, 1 Halo and 4 Elves were caught during a cyprus low pressure event.

"Half a Tornado" - 31.1.2009 night

Here are nice images taken by Gaby Yaniv (Roy's father) of a Tornado.
It didn't touch the ground but still, it looks great.
Picture was taken from the city of Rishon Lezion, looking North to Bat-Yam and Tel - Aviv.

30.1.2009 -1 sprite

We caught 1 sprite from Tel-Aviv. Azimuth was 330 toward Cyprus.

1 sprite 4 saturday

we were watching toward the north - the gulf of Iskenderun (thanks Renzo)

at 21:56 (local time) we observed 1 sprite.

6-7.1.09 - New year fireworks - cont.

theses are the events that were observed by the jerusalem team...