SpaceRef - Astrobiology and Life Science - SETI

SpaceRef - Astrobiology and Life Science - SETI - Observatories And Searches

Arecibo Observatory - A large radio telescope located in Puerto Rico and operated by Cornell University under cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation. Featured in the film "Contact".

BETA - A SETI search performed at Harvard University that uses the 26-meter dish to feed data from 80 million channels into an array of programmable "feature recognizers."

Big Ear Radio Observatory - A Kraus-type radio telescope (no longer in existence) in Ohio which once covered an area larger than three football fields. The telescope was famous for discovering some of the most distant known objects in the universe, as well as for the "Wow!" Signal and the longest-running SETI.

Columbus Optical SETI (COSETI) Observatory - Optical SETI seeks to detect pulsed and continuous wave laser beacons signals in the visible and infrared spectrums. The COSETI Observatory has been designed to detect both attention-getting continuous wave and pulsed laser beacon signals.

Harvard SETI home page - A description of the various SETI projects underway by Professor Paul Horowitz and his students.

High Resolution Microwave Survey (HMRS) - NASA - A NASA-sponsored SETI search that began in 1992 and was cancelled by Congress in 1993. This work is currently being carried on by the SETI Institute's Project Phoenix.

Optical SETI at Harvard/Smithsonian - A search for such intense laser pulses, transmitted deliberately in our direction by another civilization in order to initiate communication across interstellar distances.

Optical SETI at the University of California, Berkeley - Optical SETI is the search for visible or infrared signals from extraterrestrial civilizations.

Project Argus - An effort to deploy and coordinate roughly 5,000 small radio telescopes around the world, in an all-sky survey for microwave signals of possible intelligent extra-terrestrial origin sponsored by The SETI League, Inc.

Project META II: The Mega-Channel Extraterrestrial Assay - A SETI search that searches the southern hemisphere skies from a location near Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Project Phoenix - An effort by the SETI Institute to detect extraterrestrial civilizations by listening for radio signals that are either being deliberately beamed our way, or are inadvertently transmitted from another planet. Phoenix is the successor to the ambitious NASA SETI and HRMS programs that were cancelled by a budget-conscious Congress in 1993.

Project SERENDIP - The SERENDIP Seti program is a search for radio signals from extraterrestrial civilizations, it is currently conducting a sky survey at the world's largest radio telescope.

SETI Australia Centre - Concerned with research, education and public outreach connected with and related to the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. It is located in the Faculty of Informatics, Science and Technology at the Campbell town campus of the University of Western Sydney Macarthur.

SETI Research at Jodrell Bank - Information about the history of SETI and the observations being carried out at present at Jodrell Bank in England. The Lovell 76m radiotelescope is currently participating in the SETI efforts of Project Phoenix.

SETI@home - An organization formed to conduct a scientific experiment that harnesses the power of hundreds of thousands of Internet-connected computers SETI research by use of screen saver software that analyzes actual radio telescope observations.

Southern SERENDIP - A SETI search being conducted in Australia with the capability to search 58 million channels at once.

Very Large Array (VLA) - The VLA is one of the world's premier astronomical radio observatories and consists of 27 antennas arranged in a huge Y pattern up to 36km (22 miles) across located in Socorro, New Mexico. Featured in the film "Contact".