Aussie BOINC users: SETI expands Parkes observations with 13x multibeam RX

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BREAKTHROUGH LISTEN BEGINS SURVEY OF THE PLANE OF THE MILKY WAY AT PARKES

 

TLDR; Parkes is a CSIRO radio telescope in New South Wales, Australia. It's primary significance is that it is a southern hemisphere receiver, so combined with the northern hemisphere receivers you get full sky coverage. They have been using Parkes data in the past but only from a single beam receiver, this has been upgraded to a 13 beam receiver to vastly broaden the listening capacity. In 2018 the Parkes observations alone are projected to generate 100 petabytes of raw data in 2018 for Seti@Home users to crunch through.

 

Now is a great time for Aussie (and other!) BOINC users to get (back) on board the Seti@Home project... well, maybe after the pentathalon contest is finished anyhow