The Moon is notoriously difficult to photograph. Sometimes you want to snap a picture of it with your smartphone, and the flash goes off. It is much rarer that you are recording it and the flash happens on the Moon, but it does happen. That’s a meteor hitting our natural satellite and creating a new crater. A Japanese astronomer managed to capture it happening not once but twice, just a couple of days apart. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

Daichi Fujii, a curator in charge of astronomy at the Hiratsuka City Museum, is not a beginner in tracking meteor impacts on the Moon. We have covered his videos before , but the latest work is a two-for-one. On Thursday, October 30, at 8:33 pm local time, with his setup pointed at

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