Stardust@home

New movies are sent out randomly. It doesn't matter what your score is or what your percentages are. The only thing that would effect your chances of seeing a new movie is the number of movies you’re seeing. In other words, if Viewer A is looking at 10 movies a day and Viewer B is looking at 1000 m...

http://stardustathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/myevents_viewer.php?id=6039464V1 I know this is a bad focus movie, but I clicked on the object near the bottom left edge (19/49 aggreements so far). As far as I can tell we have reached the surface at the bottom of focus in this area based on the linear struct...

http://stardustathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/myevents_viewer.php?id=8584303V1 This is clearly a track, similar to the low angle ones but much higher angle. Only 2/53 agreements but definitely a track! Sebastian, I think you're right - I would have flagged it. These low angle types (IDP/ejecta) seem fairl...

This one is really what I'd imagine a lateral track to look like. http://stardustathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/myevents_viewer.php?id=6355541V1 Bill, Certainly looks like a lateral low angle track to me. I've seen a few similar ones posted are below are three candidates for such tracks I've found myself:...

Something really energetic has made a very wide track at considerable depth across the bottom of: http://stardustathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/myevents_viewer.php?id=6713450V1 Has anyone seen the rest of it? Big and enigmatic I'd agree, and seems below surface, but not like an impact track. Perhaps a man...

http://stardustathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/myevents_viewer.php?id=862370V1 I'm pretty happy with this being another low angle track; lower left quadrant travelling straight towards top. The particle is definitely a bit below surface. Currently 61 out of 183 have flagged it (rated indeterminant). Starbr...

fjgiie wrote:Hi starbright,

http://stardustathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ ... sc&start=0

It's not a long thread.

Thanks fjgiie,

Some of this discussion clears the issue up a bit.

Starbright

I would probably have clicked bad focus for both, if I'd seen them, although alpha is starting to look very interesting, if only the focus went deeper. Both objects are right near the edge of the focus movies. Given that the movies seem to overlap a bit, the big question that I have is - has anyone ...

After reading though quite a bit of information on the stardust@home site I’m still unsure of exactly how the gel is illuminated to make the focus movies. Is the light source fixed beneath a tile, or is it repositioned as the microscope moves? I assume the former, because in some movies everything s...

I would have clicked bad focus for both. Alpha does look interesting, but you can't focus deep enough to see if leads below surface.

Starbright

While the first movie clearly shows the focus layer move along the track when diving deeper into the gel and reach the dark spot at the bottom, the second movie shows two spots at the surface and the shadow reaching out from them appears do be lower than these spots and has no clear focus moving al...

Here are two movies from my events list that I think show low angle tracks: http://stardustathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/myevents_viewer.php?id=433711V1 Should be obvious near the left top corner. This has been flagged by 47 out of 185 viewers and has now passed cut 1 with stardust team comment "anot...

http://stardustathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/myevents_viewer.php?id=433711V1 This is by far my best candidate yet for a real track (at top left corner entering gel obliquely) and I'm pleased to see it's made the "Passed cut 1" grade with the added comment "another IDP". Strangely only...