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On August 1, 2013 I detected the  first lunar impact candidate.  During last three years i only recorded spurious signals, cosmic rays and/or satellites glints. The lunar flash  was simultaneously detected (and confirmed) by two friends of mine Stefano Sposetti and Andrea Manna, with their Observatories located in Switzerland.

I couldn't reach this first real detection without the valuable help of Stefano Sposetti and Marco Iten, which worked for a long time on detection of lunar impacts (writing with me several articles).

Since many years I also was stimulated by some friends in GLR group encouraging me when I detected only spurious flashes (in particular i was encouraged for this activity by Jim Phillips and Maria Teresa Bregante).  

I have worked long and hard to capture an impact and my persistence and dedication have paid off.

Moon data, at the moment of the detection, as seen from Raffaello Lena’s observatory (Rome Italy)

Observatory coordinates (GPS):  Lat. 41.94156° N and 

Long. 12.56089°  (H=30 m).

Horizon: Azim: 90°50' Alt: +29°47'

Visibility: Rise 01:27, Set 16:26 UTC August, 1, 2013

Transit time:   08:54 UTC

Moon angular diameter: 00°.29’.87’’

Moon distance: 400009 km

Lunation: 23.80 days

Illumination: 27.8%

Colongitude: 202.4°

Libration in Latitude: +03°07'

Libration in Longitude: +04°25'

Sub-solar latitude: -1.5°

Instrument: TMB refractor 13 cm equipped with Mintron camera MTV-12V1C-EX

Videograbber: Logilink EasyCup USB2 Video Adapter, S-Video input

Recording software: VirtualDub with Huffyuv v. 2.1.1 compression Avi file saved on Hard disk

CCIR recording mode@25fps (Integration frame time 0.04 sec)

Atomic Clock Synchronization