PyNAPLE: Automated Lunar Impact Flash Crater Detection

When a Lunar impact flash is caught on camera an approximate location for this event can be obtained, and the resultant crater found. This approximate location, however, can span a large area; for a crater only a couple meters in size manually searching this area for the new crater proves problematic. We have developed a software pipeline which accounts for this approximation of area, and using Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Narrow Angle Camera (LRO NAC) images, we automatically form all valid temporal pairs which can be analyzed to locate the newly formed crater.