1 Stellar Countdown WU next to Crab Nebula

(Jason H.) wrote in message m...

....GIGANTO snip...

They mentioned that they looked at a number of extra-solar planets
(and other objects), so I plan to cross-ref the known extra-solar
planet RA/DECS to the WU's I have to see which planets they are. I'll
let you know what I find (if anything.)

I've created the following table of Known Extra-Solar Planet RA/DEC's
to help me to cross-compare their positions to the SETI@home Stellar
Countdown WU RA/DEC's (very kindly sent to me.)

http://www.geocities.com/exosearch/e...tablesepRA.htm

(I've created a much bigger table of all known extra-solar planet
RA/DEC's, but the link above only shows the 26 visible to
SETI@home/Arecibo's limited window on space.)

Thanks to the excellent work of real SETI@home WU crunchers (unlike
myself), I've also been able to create a table (which is not ready to
post here yet) of the Stellar Countdown WU's which has grown to
approximately 35 pages of text with approx. 60 WU's on each, and the
html version (also not yet ready to be posted) has grown to 6.2+ megs
and I still have to add a few more (I'll probably have to break that
down into several links/pages because I believe that my freebie FTP
only accepts 5 megs at a time.) I'm able to sort the table using any
of the following: start ra, end ra, start dec, end dec, angle range
and sub band center frequency. The WU's are indeed grouping together
on specific RA/DEC's of the same angle ranges and the same start and
end RA/DEC's. I still have to tally up all the groupings, but it
appears that there are considerably more WU RA/DECS than the
publicized amount of re-visited candidates said to have been looked at
by S@h on March 18th, 19th and 24th. I've created a column in the
table called Notable Astronomical Features, and I'm still trying to
decide what to put in it; there are lots of objects scanned by WU's,
but there is a major issue here of accuracy of what I see and what is
'in' and 'out' of a WU. For example, the primary software that I'm
using is Starry Night Pro, which is really great, with millions of
objects accessible, but when I punch in the RA/DEC's for known
extrasolar planet parent stars, there is a slight disparity when
compared to the SIMBAD coordinates (so I still have to figure out
who's using what coordinate standard when.) Hopefully the fine
gentlemen at SETI@home will publish a more precise candidate RA/DEC
list before my wife loses it, again! :^)

Regards, Jason H.