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SETI@Home Publishes Skymap

Posted by michael on from the long-distance-call dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The skymap of where in the night sky to find the most promising SETI@Home signals is reported today, along with the research plan for the March Stellar Countdown project. The dedicated use of the Arecibo Telescope to revisit these spikes, pulses, and steady signals, focused on 166 star candidates. Those 166 were pruned from the five billion signals that have been found since 1999, depending on the signal's persistence, closeness to a known star, and frequency. The next step is particularly fascinating, if a signal appears to have increased since the first observation put that star on the checklist."

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  1. Some of us by Exiler · · Score: 0, Redundant

    haven't given up on finding intelligent life on earth.

    As rare as it is there must be some concentrations of it.

    --
    Banaaaana!
  2. SCO@Home by croddy · · Score: 0, Redundant
    SETI@home is sponsored by individual donors around the world.
    If you'd like to contribute to the project,
    please visit the SETI@home web site at
    http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu.
    The project is also sponsored by the Planetary Society,
    the University of California, Sun Microsystems, Paramount Pictures,
    Fujifilm Computer Products, Informix, Engineering Design Team Inc,
    The Santa Cruz Operation (SCO), Intel, Quantum Corporation,
    and the SETI Institute.

    SETI@home was developed by David Gedye (Founder),
    David Anderson (Director), Dan Werthimer (Chief Scientist),
    Leonard Chung, Hiram Clawson, Jeff Cobb, Charles Congdon, Charlie Fenton,
    Kyle Granger, Eric Heien, Mike Hill, Michael Kang, Eric Korpela,
    Matt Lebofsky, Peter Leiser, Brad Silen, Woody Sullivan, and Adam Wight.