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jordana Send message Joined: 17 May 99 Posts: 1 Credit: 2,368,817 RAC: 0 |
I just checked what my computer was working on and saw this one with "Unknown" for the Recorded from: location http://img28.imageshack.us/img28/9289/picture52i.png Is this from the Kepler follow up observations? |
skildude Send message Joined: 4 Oct 00 Posts: 9541 Credit: 50,759,529 RAC: 60 |
the v7(kepler WU) aren't released yet as far as I know. The v7 is still in beta testing. It's unlikely yours is a v7 WU In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face. Diogenes Of Sinope |
Jason Safoutin Send message Joined: 8 Sep 05 Posts: 1386 Credit: 200,389 RAC: 0 |
Also I thought the screensaver (graphics) would be considerably different? There was a thread somewhere about that...though I will have to search for the thread. I believe it was a question I asked before. EDIT: Found it: Green Bank Telescope observations to start Saturday. "By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God's command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible". Hebrews 11.3 |
Josef W. Segur Send message Joined: 30 Oct 99 Posts: 4504 Credit: 1,414,761 RAC: 0 |
I just checked what my computer was working on and saw this one with "Unknown" for the Recorded from: location No, you've rediscovered a long standing cosmetic bug in the application which has only been corrected in the source code very recently. There's an ID number for each recording source, before the multibeam recorder was installed at Arecibo only 0, 1, and 2 were defined, so 3 was coded to say "unknown". Data from the multibeam recorder uses 3 through 16 and includes descriptive text in the WU header, but 3 still shows that "unknown" while 4 through 16 show the correct "beam 0 polarity 1" through "beam 6 polarity 1" text. So your task was from the Arecibo ALFA receiver beam 0 polarity 0. I guess GBT will probably have ID numbers 17 and 18 if the recorded data was able to get both polarities of the GBT L band receiver. Joe |
skildude Send message Joined: 4 Oct 00 Posts: 9541 Credit: 50,759,529 RAC: 60 |
Very good explanation Josef In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face. Diogenes Of Sinope |
edjcox Send message Joined: 20 May 99 Posts: 96 Credit: 5,878,353 RAC: 0 |
So far the big cardboard box of Kepler data still sits unattended and forgotten... Never engage stupid people at their level, they then have the home court advantage..... |
Jason Safoutin Send message Joined: 8 Sep 05 Posts: 1386 Credit: 200,389 RAC: 0 |
Wouldn't it be so awesome if what we do to those WUs that we actually find something? Not necessarily aliens, but a planet with some form of life? Maybe we won't find anything, but this is the closest the public has gotten to data like this. I remember when PlanetQuest was going to be a big deal. Considering the time they have been taking to get off the ground at all, we need to consider ourselves very lucky to be able to do this. "By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God's command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible". Hebrews 11.3 |
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