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EuroSETI04, The SETI League's first European Science and Technology Workshop, drew 15 members from the US, Scotland, Germany, France, Italy, Switzerland, Luxembourg, and Russia. The next such meeting is being planned for 2006, and will again be held at the Starkenburg Observatory, Heppenheim Germany. SETI League photo

Stelio Montebugnoli, who heads the SETI Italia project from the Medecina radio telescopes in Italy, was honored at EuroSETI04 with the annual Giordano Bruno Memorial Award, for significant contributions to SETI science. See this Press Release for details. SETI League photo

EuroSETI04 got off to a slow start, with many registered attendees having to work on Friday morning. Fortunately, by the following day, attendance had doubled. SETI League photo

Participant and new SETI League member Joachim Slupek, DK6DG, apparently loves SETI, as his auto number plate indicates. (The number 88 is ham radio jargon for Love and Kisses.) SETI League photo

Dr. Claudio Maccone makes a point about the KLT, his favorite mathematical transform for SETI signal analysis. The Flag of Earth flys behind him. SETI League photo

Christian Monstein, HB9SCT, came from ETH Zurich to teach us about his latest hydrogen-line spectrometer design, the ARGOS. SETI League photo

Peter Wright, DJ0BI, introduced us to the activities of the European Radio Astronomy Club. Because of a leg injury, he gave this presentation sitting down. He was wounded in the call of duty a week prior, having fallen off a radio telescope. SETI League photo

Dr. Alexander Zaitsev came from Moscow specifically to meet one of his favorite physicists, who has been known to frequent the Starkenburg Observatory. SETI League photo

SETI League director H. Paul Shuch listens intently as Starkenburg Observatory member Yasmin Walter presents the multi-wavelength Milky Way Galaxy. SETI League photo

Stelio Montebugnoli, head of the SETI Italia project, updates us on SETI activities in Italy. SETI League photo

Peter Vekinis drove in from Luxembourg, to present a paper on link analysis. His calculations suggest that we should be concentrating more of our SETI efforts in the higher frequency regions of the electromagnetic spectrum. SETI League photo

Regional coordinator Elisabeth Piotelat gave an historical overview of SETI activities in France. She also discussed implications for SETI of email spam, by using the internet SMTP standard as an analogy for interstellar communications. SETI League photo

Peter Wright introduced us to the Europe-wide ALLBIN amateur interferometer project, and demonstrated the surplus Hewlett-Packard GPS-locked time and frequency standards that are making it possible. SETI League photo

In his second talk, Christian Monstein discussed results to date obtained with ETH Zurich's Callisto spectrometer. SETI League photo

Alexander Zaitsev told us about three transmissions from Earth conducted at the Evpatoria planetary radar facility in Ukraine. He also discussed interstellar message design, and played for us some Theremin music which has already been transmitted to distant stars. SETI League photo

The old church in central Heppenheim, seen here by night, sits adjacent to the A bis Z Restaurant, where we took our Conference meals. SETI League photo

EuroSETI04 participants toast another successful day, with Russian vodka provided by Sasha Zaitsev. SETI League photo

As is traditional at SETI League meetings, after dinner and drinks, we sing. After enough drinks, we all sing. SETI League photo

Peter Wright and Alexander Zaitsev symbolically remove the Iron Curtain (a chain-mail wrapper) from a bottle of Scotch wiskey which Peter has presented to Sasha. This meeting represents the first coming together of SETI League members from East and West (but it will not be the last one). SETI League photo

Claudio Maccone reported on the Lunar Farside Radio Observatory initiative of the International Academy of Astronautics, which he chairs. He also discussed the RLI (Italian Lunar Radiometer) space mission which has been proposed to measure the Lunar cone of silence. SETI League photo

Christian Monstein discussed the operation, design and construction of his unique X-ray spectrometer... SETI League photo

...and then showed off both the hardware and the software. He urges other SETI League members to try their hand at high-energy SETI. SETI League photo

Dr. Martin Neumann, editor of the German astronomy monthly Stars and Space, looks off toward Venus while describing a rare solar transit of that planet, which will occur in June. SETI League photo

Matthias Busch, president of the Starkenburg Observatory (our kind hosts for EuroSETI04), demonstrates his EasySky astronomy software package, available for download from easysky.de. SETI League photo

Those of you who missed our recent European SETI Science and Technology Workshop may wish to obtain Proceedings of EuroSETI04, our first Conference Proceedings on CD-ROM. Hypertext (read it with your web browser); includes abstracts, papers, photos, software, songs, and presentation graphics. Suggested Contribution: $15 postpaid in US, $20 postpaid elsewhere. Order here. SETI League image

EuroSETI04 concluded with a Sunday afernoon tour of the Mannheim Amateur Radio Telescope.
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