Sunday, December 13, 2009

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...









































Wednesday, November 4, 2009

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.














Thursday, August 13, 2009

Perseids 2009

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



Friday, April 17, 2009

Passover Sprites

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



Wednesday, March 11, 2009

25-26.2.2009 Event

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











Sunday, February 1, 2009

"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.

Saturday, January 31, 2009

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.






Monday, January 12, 2009

6-7.1.09 - New year fireworks - cont.

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