SETI public: SETI@Home Looks Ahead

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Beyond the Countdown: SETI@home Looks Ahead
by Amir Alexander
March 27, 2003
At 12 midnight, Atlantic Standard Time, on Monday, March 24, SETI@home's Stellar Countdown came to an end at the Arecibo Radio Observatory. The 24 hours of observation needed to visit the top SETI@home candidate signals should have taken three days, but instead took nearly a week. The eruption of a rare Solar flare pushed the sessions back several days, ending with a 14 hour observation marathon on Monday.
In the end, the change of plans did not matter. The Stellar Countdown proved even more successful than expected, revisiting 166 of SETI@home's most promising candidates signals. This is considerably more than the 100-150 predicted before the observations. In addition, SETI@home Chief Scientist Dan Werthimer and his team found time to target 35 nearby Sun-like stars, 15 nearby galaxies, 6 candidates from the SERENDIP SETI search, and 5 extrasolar planetary system.
All in all the Stellar countdown observed 227 promising locations in the sky. Within the next few weeks all the data collected and recorded will be processed by SETI@home users around to world, to determine whether any of the targets proves to be a true alien signal. We promise to keep you posted!

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