Stardust@home

The question I'm asking is about the speed of expected 'real' stardust impacts as compared to the speed (and, well, size) of the Mir calibration movies. Basically, where I'm going is this: On all of the calibration movies, you can see a 'speck' just above where the visible track starts. I assume thi...

I second (or is it third) the idea of having a 'first hit' flag on the 'my events' list. And I can't second enough the idea of more detailed project-wide stats - most hit movies (with their Official Status) - but also adding things like 'average' (or mean) specificity/sensitivity, total number of mo...

Rather than rely upon the raw score as currently computed, would't it make more sense, be less suceptable to alleged "cheating", and properly reflect the amount of 'science' done to compute rank as such: Total # of 'real' movies viewed X specificity% X sensitivity% = Score That way, you're...

I'm a bit concerned about this too. In many of the "Calibration Movies", the trace can't be seen until deep into the focus - I think those doing the scanning might be advised to put a larger depth-of-field variable into the scanning. Granted I understand you're dealing with a horrendous am...