Comments on: Tracking the Wow! suspects. https://habitablezone.com/2013/07/30/tracking-the-wow-suspects/ Fri, 01 May 2026 22:52:42 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: bowser https://habitablezone.com/2013/07/30/tracking-the-wow-suspects/#comment-25770 bowser Thu, 01 Aug 2013 03:53:27 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=35904#comment-25770 That may well be the only intelligent radio emission ever heard on Earth, and it was generated from elsewhere! That may well be the only intelligent radio emission ever heard on Earth, and it was generated from elsewhere!

]]> By: ER https://habitablezone.com/2013/07/30/tracking-the-wow-suspects/#comment-25740 ER Wed, 31 Jul 2013 20:39:30 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=35904#comment-25740 The positional calculations I made in the post above have a slight error. Actually, the suspect star I mention is much closer than I thought to the area indicated by the telescope. Note the following chart from the Wiki web page on Wow. The two vertical red stripes are the areas where the signal is believed to have originated. They are 3m of time apart (E-W), and are each 40' of arc tall (N-S). Like all astronomical charts, E, the direction of earth rotation and increasing RA, is to the viewer's left. N is at the top. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/Wow_signal_location.jpg/800px-Wow_signal_location.jpg <img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/Wow_signal_location.jpg/800px-Wow_signal_location.jpg" alt="." /> Note the prominent bright star on the chart about 3m E of the easternmost red stripe, and right in the middle of the N-S extent of the red stripes. That is the double star I discussed above, located at RA 19h 29m 53s, Dec -26d 59' 14", (2000.0) known as Wo 9657, and also under these other catalog designations: HR 7398, SAO 188192, HD 183275, TYC 6884 02463 1, HIP 95865, HN 119, Boss26911, and ADS 12506. The suspect star lies directly in the central Declination of the areas of interest, and as far E of the Easternmost red stripe as the E stripe is from the W stripe. I really do believe this star should be monitored. Except for a 3m difference in RA (possibly an experimental or scrivener's error) this guy is right on target! The positional calculations I made in the post above have a slight error. Actually, the suspect star I mention is much closer than I thought to the area indicated by the telescope.

Note the following chart from the Wiki web page on Wow. The two vertical red stripes are the areas where the signal is believed to have originated. They are 3m of time apart (E-W), and are each 40′ of arc tall (N-S). Like all astronomical charts, E, the direction of earth rotation and increasing RA, is to the viewer’s left. N is at the top.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/Wow_signal_location.jpg/800px-Wow_signal_location.jpg

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Note the prominent bright star on the chart about 3m E of the easternmost red stripe, and right in the middle of the N-S extent of the red stripes. That is the double star I discussed above, located at RA 19h 29m 53s, Dec -26d 59′ 14″, (2000.0) known as

Wo 9657, and also under these other catalog designations:
HR 7398, SAO 188192, HD 183275, TYC 6884 02463 1, HIP 95865,
HN 119, Boss26911, and ADS 12506.

The suspect star lies directly in the central Declination of the areas of interest, and as far E of the Easternmost red stripe as the E stripe is from the W stripe. I really do believe this star should be monitored. Except for a 3m difference in RA (possibly an experimental or scrivener’s error) this guy is right on target!

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