Here's the story:

I received my seti@home email on Nov. 22. I put off switching to BOINC for a week or so. But when I did I checked the results that I had returned thus far. I happen to have one of the add on programs that would download multiple data sets, process them, return them and most importantly save the results. It tells of a few problems like when the telescope is moving too fast and it tells me when there is a potential signal. Upon reviewing the data, I found that I began returning several of these potential signals in early October. By several, I mean that I returned 58+ results with potential signals around that time compared to the 8 results with potential signals in the previous years. The next thing I do is go to the old seti@home site to find that they removed the link to the “Skymap of SETI@home’s most promising candidates” link. Check for yourself: http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/bestcands.html
A few of the candidate links still exist in the list of people who previously found candidates. So the data is still there and accessible. The simply killed that link or had it been like that for years?

I’m in the process of examining these results, organizing them, and analyzing them. Thus far, it seems to come from 2 sky positions. One position, I’ve ordered 26 results where they all have a pulse and around 14 have triplets from 7 results. Some sets of data carry multiple triplets. All of the triplets curiously occur on multiples of about 80.458 seconds (multiple of alien second?). Perhaps a low frequency would have best penetrating power and it could be easily focused. Also curious, there is an apparent linear relation between the period of the triplet relative to the difference between the triplets period and the next lowest triplet period in my data set. It is as if it’s a form of counting (showing signs of intelligence). There are a couple outliers to the linear relation but I could simply be missing 2 pieces of data. To add to this, the sets of data that return multiple triplets also contain interesting patterns such as a double of doublets of the triplet. I’m not sure that is the best way to describe it but it’s a definite pattern.

I’ve also graphed the position vs. power to find that it comes from about RA: 7 hrs. 36.25m and Dec: 24 deg 2.06’. The closest star to this is
TYC1911-1309-1 at RA: 7 hrs. 35.888m and Dec: 24 deg 0.497’.
Or
TYC1911-329-1 at RA: 7 hrs. 35.783m and Dec: 24 deg 2.291’.
Both of these are in the Gemini cluster.
The date:
05/03/2005 or May 3, 2004

I still need to look at the data that seems to focus on another part of the sky. It will be interesting if it shows similar effects. If anyone knows what is going on with this particular set, I would be interested in knowing. If no one seems to know but you have results for the same area of the sky and around the same date, I would like to get copies of that data (processed or unprocessed). And if interested, I could post it to my server but after I take a closer look.

Sleestak

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Thanks for the interesting post.

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And make sure you update us. Interesting.

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