To quote:
During a few observation sessions in late April, the new Optical SETI Telescope was already demonstrating its amazing capabilities. Over three nights, the telescope completed 17 hours of observation, under the direction of Paul Horowitz and his team of Harvard graduate students.
During that time, the telescope observed 1% of the sky, looking for the briefest flashes of light coming from outer space. This translates to 1000 times the sky area covered by Horowitz's Optical SETI targeted search, and 200 times the number of stars observed!
To put this in perspective, recall that the new telescope surveyed the etskies for three nights; the targeted search operated for six years…
Full article plus an image here:
http://www.planetary.org/programs/projects/seti_optical_searches/oseti_071106.html
Space/Science » in reply to Warranted, constructive criticism - that's the difference between science and dogma
Report on The Planetary Society Optical SETI Project - July 11, 2006
The whole thread (24 posts)
- Has SETI Been Barking Up The Wrong Tree (Mostly)?
- Look under the lampost
- They're looking for radio signals.
- re: Has SETI Been Barking Up The Wrong Tree (Mostly)?
- You got detailed SETI plans? Then let's hear them. I would be genuinely interested in the details
- faith based, not science based
- Further papers on the subject
- You got detailed SETI plans? Then let's hear them. I would be genuinely interested in the details
- Unwarranted criticism