I wonder, could we fire up a sub-project and map the Seti@home data onto the known Exo-planets locations?

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Message 1870024 - Posted: 28 May 2017, 23:45:29 UTC

And see if we can "see" anything?

Ideally, come up with a way to distribute the data analysis so its not a Nebula only processing.

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Message 1870069 - Posted: 29 May 2017, 7:38:15 UTC

two questions theretom.
first there are tools to map the data onto the known exoplanet locations,but that list grows daily, so the map would be out of date before it could be "published".
second,not really practical, even the data for one of the " pixels" is hundreds of thousands of results. the processing involved in collating this data size, screening out rfi, etc. would take days if not weeks of continuous processing.
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