TAandy
Diamond Member
Took this from Googles PlanetQuest group;
"We have mostly been working on the transit detection algorithm(s) to
insure that it takes less than the age of the universe to derive
parameters (of stars and planets) from the light curvee without human
intervention. We'll also, however, need to add some BOINC utilities to
handle the more complext PlanetQuest requirements. Finally, we've been
compiling our star catalogue from N and S Hemisphere observations made
last year. So, we hope to show all this in a web update soon as we can.
Much thanks for your interest and please stay tuned!
With best regards, Laurance Doyle."
From Robert Slawson, Observing and Image Processing Astronomer:
""PlanetQuest is alive and is, at least, keeping me busy. I've had 2
observing runs, a month in Australia (mostly rained out) and another
month and a bit in California (better, but not great). Since returning
from California in late November, I've been reducing the data (CCD
images) with the expectation that it will be part of the "beta test"
("alpha test ?").
I don't know much about the Collaboratory/BOINC end of things. There
was a milestone to have a demo running by the end of January but I
didn't here anything about it.
Dave Gutelius and Laurance Doyle "parted ways" last summer with Dave
leaving at the end of August. Since then, Jeremy Crandell and now Brad
Silens have taken stints as Executive Director."
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As you can see David Gutelius resigned as CEO last year. It was nice
having him post here when he was around. As far as I can gather from
some of the project peeps I've spoken with the work appears to be
concentrated on the non-BOINC portion of the project. No doubt the
occlusion-detection stuff requires accurately-calibrated medium/big
telescopes over a long period of time, and that isn't cheap (i.e. you
can't do it with 10" Meades in back yards). They also need to be
granted the required telescope time to do this too."
"We have mostly been working on the transit detection algorithm(s) to
insure that it takes less than the age of the universe to derive
parameters (of stars and planets) from the light curvee without human
intervention. We'll also, however, need to add some BOINC utilities to
handle the more complext PlanetQuest requirements. Finally, we've been
compiling our star catalogue from N and S Hemisphere observations made
last year. So, we hope to show all this in a web update soon as we can.
Much thanks for your interest and please stay tuned!
With best regards, Laurance Doyle."
From Robert Slawson, Observing and Image Processing Astronomer:
""PlanetQuest is alive and is, at least, keeping me busy. I've had 2
observing runs, a month in Australia (mostly rained out) and another
month and a bit in California (better, but not great). Since returning
from California in late November, I've been reducing the data (CCD
images) with the expectation that it will be part of the "beta test"
("alpha test ?").
I don't know much about the Collaboratory/BOINC end of things. There
was a milestone to have a demo running by the end of January but I
didn't here anything about it.
Dave Gutelius and Laurance Doyle "parted ways" last summer with Dave
leaving at the end of August. Since then, Jeremy Crandell and now Brad
Silens have taken stints as Executive Director."
=========
As you can see David Gutelius resigned as CEO last year. It was nice
having him post here when he was around. As far as I can gather from
some of the project peeps I've spoken with the work appears to be
concentrated on the non-BOINC portion of the project. No doubt the
occlusion-detection stuff requires accurately-calibrated medium/big
telescopes over a long period of time, and that isn't cheap (i.e. you
can't do it with 10" Meades in back yards). They also need to be
granted the required telescope time to do this too."
