Subject: Re: High Angle Range WU, what is the highest acceptable design value (PR - telescope)?
From: "Alfred A. Aburto Jr." <aburto@sbcglobal.net>
Date: 08/03/2005, 05:08
Newsgroups: alt.sci.seti,sci.astro.seti

> Max Power wrote:
High Angle Range WU, what is the highest acceptable design value (PR - telescope)?

David Woolley covered this ...


Why is this not indiacted in the SETI client itself?
Why is the work unit not tagged as [meta-data] invalid for the PR telescope, if such high Angle Ranges are reached?

Good question ...
I don't know the answer ...
(I'm not helping much so far ...)



Anyone ever see a wu with such an angle range...?

Aha! Yes, I've recieved a number of these WU with angle range of 128.678 just as you have indicated in the table below.

They are all from 20 Nov 2003 at 13:50:05UTC just as you indicate in the table below. This is the time frame that Project Phoenix was at Arecibo doing their data collection. Perhaps Peter Backus can check the logs to see what was going on at this time?

Even though the End RA is wrong (should be 37.066 - 24.000 = 13.066 hours), I think the angle range is right. That is, I don't think the End RA being wrong caused the angle range to be calculated in error.
Al

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Name    20no03aa.23948.19874.742326.232
Recording Time  11/20/03 1:50 PM
Base Frequency  1,419,765,625
Start RA        22.818  End RA  37.066
Start DEC       24.85   End DEC 18.81
Angle Range     128.678
Receiver        ao1420
Best Gaussian   score   0.0     power   0.0   fit     0.0
Best Spike      score   0.0     power   0.0
Best Pulse      score   0.0     power   0.0
Best Triplet    score   0.0     power   0.0
Tape Version    1.4
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