Starfield map of where SETI has recorded data

Message boards : Number crunching : Starfield map of where SETI has recorded data

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Cheopis Send message Joined: 17 Sep 00 Posts: 126 Credit: 6,747,662 RAC: 8,525	Message 1240848 - Posted: 3 Jun 2012, 21:33:19 UTC
	This already exists on the webpage I know, but there's an app someone showed me at work today called Vortex Planetarium which looks like it would be an excellent template for a starfield map that one could point your phone at just to see if SETI had analyzed data. Basically you point your phone at a section of sky and the app I saw shows planets, stars, and astrology images (Cancer, Pisces, etc) You point it at the ground below you and it shows you what is on the other side of the world. If someone with the ability to do so could build an app like this, that would be great :) Especially if it could talk with the SETI database and show where your own machine got the data it has analyzed!
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Josef W. Segur Volunteer developer Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 30 Oct 99 Posts: 3931 Credit: 934,295 RAC: 13	Message 1240892 - Posted: 3 Jun 2012, 22:40:45 UTC - in response to Message 1240866.
	Similarly, the result you may be having in your result logs (like SMV), is supposed to be showing you starting and ending locations for R.A. and DEC for a given observation. But in relation to which epoch? 1950.0, or 2000.0. Yes, I know it is not meant to generally publish exact co-ordinates if the observations relate to a fixed point in the sky. But what about the above-mentioned problem which relates to the epochs? The epoch is supposed to be J2000, but there's a double precession involved in the WU coordinates which might have to be corrected. NTPCkr has code to do that of course, so candidates for reobservation will be correctly locatable. Of course the ~0.05 degree beamwidth and the pointing accuracy of Arecibo are other terms which add uncertainty to the location. OTOH the starting and ending coordinates draw a line, but each reported signal logged by BoinclogX has a specific ar and dec value which the science application has interpolated from intermediate coordinates at ~1 second intervals. Joe
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Julie Send message Joined: 15 May 12 Posts: 279 Credit: 29,497 RAC: 0	Message 1240993 - Posted: 4 Jun 2012, 3:06:00 UTC Last modified: 4 Jun 2012, 3:06:26 UTC
	Back when I was crunching last (around 2005 or 2006) there was something that showed you where in the sky your chunks of data were coming from. I can't for the life of me remember what it was. Which makes it hard for me to ask if it still exists because I can't remember what it is. :( I want to say SkyMap, but I am not close to being certian. Does anyone know what I am talking about?
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Fred E. Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 22 Jul 99 Posts: 435 Credit: 12,885,699 RAC: 33,569	Message 1240998 - Posted: 4 Jun 2012, 3:43:58 UTC
	Back when I was crunching last (around 2005 or 2006) there was something that showed you where in the sky your chunks of data were coming from. I can't for the life of me remember what it was. Which makes it hard for me to ask if it still exists because I can't remember what it is. :( I want to say SkyMap, but I am not close to being certian. Does anyone know what I am talking about? Think you're remembering Seti@Home Mapview , a freeware program. Looks like it has finally been updated. http://www.bjoernhenke.de/. Note that you need to run one of the logging programs such as that author's BOINCLogX because that's the data Mapview uses. ____________ Another Fred Support SETI@home when you search the Web or shop online with GoodSearch and GoodShop
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Julie Send message Joined: 15 May 12 Posts: 279 Credit: 29,497 RAC: 0	Message 1241005 - Posted: 4 Jun 2012, 4:19:27 UTC - in response to Message 1240998.
	Thanks, but I can't get any of it to work. Reminds me of how much fun it wasn't trying to get SetiQueue to work. Says to attach it to a directory, there is two choices. Local and Skins, neither of which have the logs in them... so frustrating :/
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kevin6912 Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 18 Jul 99 Posts: 17 Credit: 8,102,096 RAC: 5,991	Message 1241048 - Posted: 4 Jun 2012, 10:06:14 UTC - in response to Message 1241005.
	attach it to a directory That would be the Boinc data directory. Where the file client_state.xml and directories slots and projects are. example: c:\programdata\BOINC for my Windows 7. Kevin
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Julie Send message Joined: 15 May 12 Posts: 279 Credit: 29,497 RAC: 0	Message 1241408 - Posted: 4 Jun 2012, 23:21:37 UTC - in response to Message 1241048.
	how when it only shows the two files I said for Boinc? I can't get to anything every file I try to attach to it says it is an invalid directory. :(
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Cheopis Send message Joined: 17 Sep 00 Posts: 126 Credit: 6,747,662 RAC: 8,525	Message 1241495 - Posted: 5 Jun 2012, 2:24:44 UTC
	Hrm, I thought the star / data mapper already existed in a fully functional format somewhere for PC. What I was thinking about was a point-and-look application where you load the app, point your smartphone at some random point in space, and you see a starmap where the phone is pointed at, with info about how much data SETI@home has processed from various places on that currently-visible screen. Point it at, say, Orion, and see how much data SETI@home has processed / collected from that spot in space, and it's nearby surroundings.
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Julie Send message Joined: 15 May 12 Posts: 279 Credit: 29,497 RAC: 0	Message 1241519 - Posted: 5 Jun 2012, 3:14:01 UTC - in response to Message 1241495.
	That would be sweet, but knowing my luck lol... it wouldn't work for me xD ____________ I has a MiniCity :) http://en-ki-du.myminicity.com
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alan Send message Joined: 18 Feb 00 Posts: 125 Credit: 311,307 RAC: 417	Message 1242106 - Posted: 6 Jun 2012, 9:24:05 UTC - in response to Message 1241495.
	There's SETI@home-MapView which runs with BoincLogX, both from Bjoern Henke http://www.bjoernhenke.de/ ____________
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