"Hits" marked on graphics.

tenfiveoh
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It would be a boost to user satisfaction if the graphics somehow showed the interesting results found by clients. I supposed they could be called "hits". Then if any come to fruition through further lab analysis perhaps "confirmed" results could be shown also.

Bernd Machenschalk
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"Hits" marked on graphics.

This is somewhat impossible. The feature we are looking for is not local. You are scanning the sky like pixel by pixel of a TV image, an you only come to recognize features when the whole scan is finished. You don't know if a pixel is the brightest one when you are come across the pixel, you need the whole scan to spot it.

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tenfiveoh
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> This is somewhat

Message 5076 in response to message 5075

> This is somewhat impossible. The feature we are looking for is not local. You
> are scanning the sky like pixel by pixel of a TV image, an you only come to
> recognize features when the whole scan is finished. You don't know if a pixel
> is the brightest one when you are come across the pixel, you need the whole
> scan to spot it.
>
> BM

Ah, well thanks for the info!

Martin P.
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> This is somewhat

Message 5077 in response to message 5075

> This is somewhat impossible. The feature we are looking for is not local. You
> are scanning the sky like pixel by pixel of a TV image, an you only come to
> recognize features when the whole scan is finished. You don't know if a pixel
> is the brightest one when you are come across the pixel, you need the whole
> scan to spot it.
>
> BM

Hi Bernd,

understandable. But isn't there ANY way to document the progress? e.g. on Seti@Home Classic they have a map with signal candidates (http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/bestcands.html) and a very good explanaiton about the background and what we calculate (http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/learnmore.html).

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