Category: SETI

2020 Society of Amateur Radio Astronomers Eastern Conference Videos

Videos of all of the presentations at the 2020 Society of Amateur Radio Astronomers Eastern Conference are now available online at the SARA website. The conference was held on August 1 & 2, 2020.

The SARA page is organized so that you can reach each presentation individually. The videos are carried on YouTube.

https://www.radio-astronomy.org/node/331

Nominally the Eastern Conference is held each year at the Green Bank Observatory in West Virginia. This year the conference was carried completely online using Zoom. The coordinator for this conference was our own DSES Science Lead, Richard Russel. Over 93 SARA members participated, including several DSES members. DSES members Ray Uberecken, Skip Crilly, and Rich Russel gave talk presentations. Rich also was elected as Vice President of SARA.

Synchronized Multiple Radio Telescope Microwave SETI

This paper is an updated presentation by Skip Crilly K7ETI about the continuing SETI observation results we’re doing together. The DSES 60-foot dish antenna in Haswell and the 40-foot dish antenna at the Greenbank Observatory in West Virginia have been making simultaneous observations for SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) since November 2017. A third antenna in New Hampshire was added for taking data in December 2019. Simultaneous observing by sites distant from each other helps filter out local radio frequency interference (RFI). Signals observed at each site can then more confidently be identified as non-Earth in origin. This presentation summarizes the results, with additional data from February and March 2020.

The paper is available as a PDF file. Please click to read. Synchronized Multiple Radio Telescope Microwave SETI, by Skip Crilly [HamSCI 2020, March 2020]

This updates the previous presentation of February 2, 2020.

Three-telescope synchronized narrowband pulse observations, updated

Three-telescope synchronized narrowband pulse observations, Report of Observations, December 2019

This is a presentation about our the latest SETI observation results. The DSES 60-foot dish antenna in Haswell and the 40-foot dish antenna at the Greenbank Observatory in West Virginia have been making simultaneous observations for SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) since November 2017. Now a third antenna in New Hampshire has been added. Simultaneous observing by sites distant from each other helps filter out local radio frequency interference (RFI). Signals observed at each site can then more confidently be identified as non-Earth in origin. This presentation summarizes the results with the addition of the third New Hampshire antenna in December 2019. The presentation is written by Skip Crilly. It was revised February 2, 2020.

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Please click the link to read the presentation in PDF format: Three-telescope synchronized narrowband pulse observations – Report of Observations, December 2019 by Skip Crilly, Education and Public Outreach Volunteer Science Ambassador, Green Bank Observatory, 1/22/2020, revised 2/2/2020

Skip Crilly’s earlier version is still available here.