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Like many Project Argus participants, member Scott, VE3CGN, uses Radio Sky Pipe software for signal analysis and data logging.

VE3CGN photo

31 December 2016

Here is the Software Defined Radio dongle that member Scott, VE3CGN, is using as a receiver in his Project Argus station.

VE3CGN photo

24 December 2016

As he continues to assemble his Project Argus radio telescope (see last three Featured Photos), member Scott, VE3CGN, is learning about radio astronomy with this Ku-band dish.

VE3CGN photo

17 December 2016

As he continues assembling his Project Argus radio telescope (see last two Featured Photos), member Scott, VE3CGN, is cleaning, straightening, and painting the mesh petals for his 3 meter dish.

VE3CGN photo

10 December 2016

As a first step in building his Project Argus radio telescope (see last week's Featured Photo), member Scott, VE3CGN, has refurbished the frame of his 3 meter dish.

VE3CGN photo

3 December 2016

In Eastern Canada, new member Scott, VE3CGN, has acquired this much-used 3 meter diameter C-band satellite TV dish, and is now repurposing it for use in his Project Argus radio telescope.

VE3CGN photo

26 November 2016

This equipment rack was assembled by students from Liceo M. Curie and Liceo Valdese high schools in Italy (see the past two months' featured photos) for their SPOCK experiment. Their off-the-shelf receiver and DSP system provides 65K system noise temperature, 1.6 MHz observed bandwidth, and 12 Hz spectral resolution.

IZ1BPN photo

19 November 2016

Students from Liceo M. Curie and Liceo Valdese high schools in Italy (see last seven weeks' featured photos) present the results of their SPOCK observations at an amateur radio astronomy meeting. Keep watching here for more SPOCK photos.

IZ1BPN photo

12 November 2016

High school students gathered around the eight meter diameter dish at the Urania Observatory (see last six weeks' featured photos) during the SPOCK experiment. Keep watching here for more SPOCK photos.

IZ1BPN photo

5 November 2016

Some of the receivers used for the SPOCK observations of Kepler candidate planets, at the Urania Observatory (see last five weeks' featured photos). Keep watching here for more SPOCK photos.

IZ1BPN photo

29 October 2016

More images of high school students at the Urania Observatory (see last four weeks' featured photos) learning to operate the equipment for the SPOCK experiment. Keep watching here for more SPOCK photos.

IZ1BPN photo

22 October 2016

The SPOCK antenna at the Urania Observatory (see last three weeks' featured photos) is eight meters in diameter, has a 0.4 f/d ratio and a circularly polarized feed, exhibiting +38 dBi and a 2 degree beamwidth on the 21 cm neutral hydrogen line. Keep watching here for more SPOCK photos.

IZ1BPN photo

15 October 2016

Liceo M. Curie and Liceo Valdese high school students at the Urania Observatory (see last two weeks' featured photos) gathered around the SPOCK receiver for some test observations. Keep watching here for more SPOCK photos.

IZ1BPN photo

8 October 2016

Students from Liceo M. Curie high school in Pinerolo Italy, and Liceo Valdese high school in Torre Pellice Italy, are learning their way around the Urania Observatory (see last week's featured photo) in preparation for the SPOCK experiment. Keep watching here for more SPOCK photos.

IZ1BPN photo

1 October 2016

From Luserna S.G. (TO), Italy, SETI League member Stefano, IZ1BPN (Project Argus station JN34ot) sends along this photo of the Urania Observatory. Here, he and students from Liceo M. Curie high school in Pinerolo Italy, and Liceo Valdese high school in Torre Pellice Italy, are using an eight meter diameter dish, to conduct an experiment called “SETI on exoPlanets Observed and Confirmed by Kepler” (SPOCK). Watch this space in the weeks ahead for more SPOCK photos.

IZ1BPN photo

24 September 2016

This group photo was taken this past Summer at the Technical Conference of our sister organization, the Society of Amateur Radio Astronomers (SARA), held at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), Green Bank WV. Several SETI League members were in attendance.

SARA photo

17 September 2016

This group photo was taken this past Spring at the Western Conference of our sister organization, the Society of Amateur Radio Astronomers (SARA), held in Prescott AZ. SETI League president Richard Factor can be seen standing in the front row, fourth from left.

SARA photo

10 September 2016

If SETI League member Rich Arland, K7SZ, looks forlorn, it's because he's reluctantly decided to sell his Icom IC-R7000 receiver. The 7000 has been the receiver of choice in Project Argus stations for the past 20 years, was featured in the SETI League Technical Manual online, and continues to serve Argonauts around the world very well indeed. Anyone caring to make Rich an offer on this well-maintained and gently used multi-mode microwave receiver may contact him via k7sz_@_live_dot_com.

K7SZ photo

3 September 2016

In last week's Featured Photo, you saw Prof. Shuch and the antique MG-TD which co-starred with him in several SETI documentary films. We have recently learned (thanks, Wayne, for the heads-up) that the original photo has been digitally transformed into an internet meme, appearing several thousand times on the Web!

unattributed photoshop art

27 August 2016

If this antique MG-TD looks familiar, it is because it, and SETI League executive director H. Paul Shuch, have appeared together in numerous SETI documentaries over the past couple of decades. Tune in next week to see how the image has been transmogrified into an internet meme.

N6TX photo

20 August 2016

SETI League founder and president Richard Factor and his wife Karen are having a whale of a doggone good time on their vacation. Given Richard's choice of t-shirt, we conclude that the Orca is an intelligent extra-terrestrial -- er, extra-acquatical.

WA2IKL photo

13 August 2016

SETI League executive director emeritus H. Paul Shuch gave one of his famous Dr. SETI concerts in May, at the Baltimore Science Fiction Society's 50th annual convention.

N6TX photo

6 August 2016

Author and retired professor Kim Stanley Robinson dramatically reads excerpts from his Mars Trilogy, at the Balticon 50 science fiction convention in May. A moderate-sized asteroid was recently named in Stan's honor.

N6TX photo

30 July 2016

Physicist, author, and SETI League supporter Joe Haldeman reading to his wife Gay from the first draft of his newest book, at the Balticon 50 science fiction convention in May.

N6TX photo

23 July 2016

Authors Jack Clemons, Ethan Segal, and H. Paul Shuch shared a reading at the Balticon 50 science fiction convention in May.

N6TX photo

16 July 2016

Participants in the March SARA tour of the radio observatory at Embry Riddle University visited the control room where candidate signals are processed and displayed.

WA2IKL photo

9 July 2016

SETI League president Richard Factor's retirement home in Sedona, AZ now sports this beautiful HF antenna system, bracketed by the famous Sedona red mountains.

WA2IKL photo

2 July 2016

SETI League executive director emeritus H. Paul Shuch celebrated his 70th birthday last month at the Baltimore Science Fiction Society's 50th annual convention, where this space-themed birthday cake was served during the Meet The Scientists gathering.

N6TX photo

25 June 2016

SETI League director H. Paul Shuch had dinner last month with author and fellow engineer Larry Niven at the Balticon 50 science fiction convention.

N6TX photo

18 June 2016

The SETI League is deeply saddened to report the sudden and tragic death this week of our dear friend and colleague Stephane Dumas, at his home in Quebec, Canada. Stephane was an archivist of SETI historical documents, wrote Guest Editorials for The SETI League website, long served as a SETI League volunteer Regional Coordinator, was an active member of the IAA SETI Committee, and had recently developed innovative code for a fast implementation of the Karhunen-Leove Transform for SETI signal detection. At the time of his death, he was preparing a paper on his KLT implementation for presentation at the upcoming International Astronautical Congress in Guadalajara.

N6TX photo

11 June 2016

An interesting feature of the dipole antenna array at the Embry Riddle University radio observatory is the signal combiner, installed in this weatherproof enclosure.

WA2IKL photo

4 June 2016

The SARA tour of the radio observatory at Embry Riddle University in March allowed members to view the crossed dipole array used to study natural astrophysical VHF emissions.

WA2IKL photo

28 May 2016

The March SARA tour of the radio observatory at Embry Riddle University was conducted by faculty member Ray Fobes.

WA2IKL photo

21 May 2016

Tom Hagen's horn antenna construction talk at the SARA Western Conference in March kindly credited our design and online documentation.

WA2IKL photo

14 May 2016

At last month's SETI League Annual Meeting, directors Heather Wood and Richard Factor (right) welcome three visitors and prospective members: engineers Matt Bajor KC2ORE and Jenny Maung KK4BYG, and retired schoolteacher Leonard Bajor.

SETI League photo

7 May 2016

SETI League president Richard Factor, executive director H. Paul Shuch, and secretary/treasurer Heather Wood transact business at the 2016 Board meeting earlier this month.

SETI League photo

30 April 2016

At last month's SARA Western meeting in Prescott AZ, Tom Hagen showed participants how he built a SETI Horn of Plenty antenna.

WA2IKL photo

23 April 2016

After last month's SARA Western meeting in Prescott AZ, participants had an opportunity to tour the radio observatory at host Embry Riddle Aeronautical University.

WA2IKL photo

16 April 2016

The SARA Western meeting in Prescott AZ last month provided ample opportunity for member socialization between technical sessions.

WA2IKL photo

9 April 2016

At the recent Western meeting of our sister organization, the Society of Amateur Radio Astronomers, SETI League president Richard Factor met joint member Skip Crilly, whose amateur radio callsign is K7ETI.

WA2IKL photo

2 April 2016

Faint signal from Stereo-A spacecraft now in lock with NASA Madrid Deep Space complex DSS-63, 70m antenna.

NASA image

26 March 2016

Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter faint signal while in "turbo lock" with Madrid DSN DSS65 antenna.

NASA image

19 March 2016

Mars' southern polar ice cap, as captured recently by the European Space Agency's Mars Express spacecraft.

ESA image

12 March 2016

Possibly due to unrest and safety concerns, just eight SETI scientists attended this year's annual IAA SETI dinner, at the Jerusalem Crowne Plaza during the October 2015 International Astronautical Congress.

SETI League photo

5 March 2016

The SETI League is saddened to report the death last week of Dr. Sam Lightfoot (right), seen with fellow SETI enthusiasts Robert Kennedy (left) and H. Paul Shuch at the Tennessee Valley Interstellar Workshop, November 2014, in Oak Ridge, TN. Sam chaired the Communications workshop at that conference, and subsequently co-authored (with Shuch, Kennedy, and Eric Hughes) the article Communication, SETI, and Strategies (in Journal of the British Interplanetary Society 68(5/6):167-171, May/June 2015). He is further remembered here.

Paul Gilster photo

27 February 2016

Presenters at the SETI and Society session during the 2015 International Astronautical Congress in Jerusalem, included (left to right) Amri Wandel, H. Paul Shuch, Daniela de Paulis, Claudio Maccone, David Duner, and Lori Walton.

SETI League photo

20 February 2016

In the SETI and Society session at the 2015 International Astronautical Congress in Jerusalem, Daniela de Paulis, artist in residence at the Dwingeloo radio telescope in the Netherlands, discusses a virtual reality film she is developing showing views of the Earth from space. She plans to capture and analyze the brain waves of subjects experiencing the film.

SETI League photo

13 February 2016

Two dozen space scientists attended the SETI and Society session at last October's International Astronautical Congress in Jerusalem.

SETI League photo

6 February 2016

Swedish historian David Duner spoke about L, the longevity of extraterristrial civilizations, during the SETI and Society session the International Astronautical Congress in Jerusalem last October.

SETI League photo

30 January 2016

Italian SETI scientist Claudio Maccone gave yet another mathematical presentation at the 2015 International Astronautical Congress in Jerusalem, this one attempting to model the emergence of life on exoplanets.

SETI League photo

23 January 2016

For the Billingham Cutting Edge lecture at last October's International Astronautical Congress in Jerusalem, SETI League member Lori Walton presented an historical overview of the International Academy of Astronautics SETI Committee.

SETI League photo

16 January 2016

This small but intensely engaged group attended the SETI Science and Technology session at the International Astronautical Congress in Jerusalem last October.

SETI League photo

9 January 2016

At the International Astronautical Congress in Jerusalem last October, NASA administrator Charles Bolden and Israel Space Agency director general Menachem Kidron signed a wide-ranging cooperative agreement aimed at facilitating future collaborations between the two agencies in space research and exploration.

IAF photo

2 January 2016

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