A simple request (not sure about ease of implementation) is could you identify what star/system is being processed at home. The RA/DEC is nice but us newbies don't know where that is in the sky.

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A simple request (not sure about ease of implementation) is could you identify what star/system is being processed at home. The RA/DEC is nice but us newbies don't know where that is in the sky.

There are a great many books, websites, and even free planetarium programs you can download that can give you that kind of information. Note that the S@h search is not targeted at particular star-systems; it sweeps areas of sky determined by other astronomers’ observing programmes—which might often be targeting distant galaxies—so at any given time there might be no ‘ETI candidate’ stars or systems in the field of view, or several. It’s conceivable (albeit unlikely) that a detected radio signal would be the first evidence we get of a system’s existence, if the star is faint and distant enough.

If you run Windows, you may find the BOINC add-on SETI MapView worth a look.

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A simple request (not sure about ease of implementation) is could you identify what star/system is being processed at home. The RA/DEC is nice but us newbies don't know where that is in the sky.

There are a great many books, websites, and even free planetarium programs you can download that can give you that kind of information. Note that the S@h search is not targeted at particular star-systems; it sweeps areas of sky determined by other astronomers’ observing programmes—which might often be targeting distant galaxies—so at any given time there might be no ‘ETI candidate’ stars or systems in the field of view, or several. It’s conceivable (albeit unlikely) that a detected radio signal would be the first evidence we get of a system’s existence, if the star is faint and distant enough.

If you run Windows, you may find the BOINC add-on SETI MapView worth a look.

That works. Thanks a lot.

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