SHGb02+14a or the 'wow' signal

i think i got the number correct...anyway ,has there ever been a definitive explanation for this signal?
also has there been anything since that has generated a lot of excitement ?

ok cheers!!

Looks like the signal came from the direction of Sagitarius

To be honest, I doubt that signal actually occurred. Or if it did occur, it was not something that came from space. It was never found again, he had no precise location where it was from, and I think his setup was a bit crude. I read that professionals have already examined the area around where he found the signal, and nothing was ever found after that. Therefore, I'm extremely skeptical about the Wow! signal.

pity we cant find it again.......dam.
sounds like it could have been Terrestrial in origin?

To be honest, I doubt that signal actually occurred. Or if it did occur, it was not something that came from space. It was never found again, he had no precise location where it was from, and I think his setup was a bit crude. I read that professionals have already examined the area around where he found the signal, and nothing was ever found after that. Therefore, I'm extremely skeptical about the Wow! signal.

The signal, I presume, was carefully examined to see if it contained a message that would indicate intelligence. Apparently it didn't. Therefore, if all of this is true, it would not have been sent by an extraterrestrial intelligence.

Oh you never know, perhaps someone from the cleaning crew accidentally hit the transmit button. ;) It's still exciting to think about the possibilities.

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Due to the long signal integration time used, the wow signal, detected at Ohio State University in 1977, could not be examined for intelligent content. The entire signal was averaged out into several broad time periods. No other data was collected. The intent was not to decipher but merely to detect the presence of such a signal. We have no basis for saying that the signal did or did not have intelligent content. The signal was narrow enough in bandwidth to be of an apparently technological nature. The reasonable inference was made that the signal source was at a distance greater than that of our Moon. This was because it showed no movement, other than that caused by the rotation of the Earth. A closer object would presumably have shown independent motion. That an Earth-launched satellite at greater than lunar distance was the source seems very improbable. Such distant satellites are used for research and are not secret.No evidence of such a satellite, in the appropriate location in space, has come to light. A secret satellite of the surveillance sort would be highly impractical at such a great distance from Earth.

The closest star to the WOW signal is Tau Sagittarii, a K1 or K2 giant, a slightly cooler and larger star then our Sun; I m not sure if such a star would offer the conditions for a planet with life. I m not sure how hold is the star. Being cooler that the sun and larger, the planet would have a Venus orbit I would think. To the experts out there, is there any evidence of any planets aroud this star? It is plausible that the WOW signal was the signature given off by an ET craft or setalite something akin to the Voyagers. It just happens that a radio telescope captured the signal. Would make sense not to detect the signal again if the craft/probe was moving across the sky, the location would change. Same thing would happen if an alien antenna detected the radio signals from the Voyagers, the signals would change continously because of the Voyager's movement across the galactic plane.


τ Sagittarii Observation data

Epoch J2000.0 Equinox J2000.0
Constellation Sagittarius
Right ascension 19h 06m 56.4s
Declination -27° 40' 14"
Apparent magnitude (V) +3.32
Distance 120 ± 7 ly
(37 ± 2 pc)
Spectral type K1+IIIb
Other designations
40 Sagittarii, HR 7234,
HD 177716, SAO 187683,
HIP 93864

SHGb02+14a or the 'wow' signal was detected again.

Probably the signal was not from a fixed source, alien antenna on purpose trying to make contact. More probable it was from a moving alien craft/probe, unless the alien scientits turned on the antenna by mistake and gave off their location.

SHGb02+14a or the 'wow' signal was detected again.

Probably the signal was not from a fixed source, alien antenna on purpose trying to make contact. More probable it was from a moving alien craft/probe, unless the alien scientits turned on the antenna by mistake and gave off their location.

Was the signal modulated. Was it of constant amplitude when the rotation was taken into account? What was the exact frequency? I don't understand your comment that the signal could not be examined for intelligent content. It was detected during a SETI endeavor wasn't it ? So why would it not be examinable? Was it Gaussian? How good was the curve fit?

Yes it was a guassian. They were just collecting raw data so there was no tape recording of it. just letters and numbers corresponding to the strength of the signal received. We aren't actually looking for someone shouting HELLO into the night. We are just looking for a consistent signal from a single point in space
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Yes it was a guassian. They were just collecting raw data so there was no tape recording of it. just letters and numbers corresponding to the strength of the signal received. We aren't actually looking for someone shouting HELLO into the night. We are just looking for a consistent signal from a single point in space

Had the source of this signal come from that of an alien satellite then it's
host planet would be just too far away to make this form of communication
with it at all practical. Had this signal emanated from an alien spacecraft
this signal could then only be intended to be picked-up by another alien
space craft in fairly close proximity. If this signal emanated from a stray
alien satellite lost in space this craft would be far to old to still be
functioning regardless of what type of power being used to operate it's
communications systems.

Can it be confirmed that this signal did not emanate from one of our own
or one of Russia's satellites, active or virtually inactive at that time.
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