Stardust@home

How about also using the scroll wheel to focus the movies. My wrist can get pretty sore after going through a bunch of movies. If there was an area on-screen where you put your cursor to activate the wheel it might make it easier to view more movies.

Beat me by a few minutes!

I'm noticing that most of the tiny spots that come into FOV below the surface are mostly in movies 4200 through 4400, with a few in bordering movies. If the movies are listed to match the order they were arranged in space (and manufactured?) this is a rather small and specific area for tracks to be ...

Thanks for the link, I must have missed it.

There is clearly a track in this callibration movie I did, movie id=10409B. When I clicked on it my number of incorrect answers went up by one, and my score went down. I was sure to click right on it and not off to the side. This is the second one today where this has happened (I didn't get the id o...

Well I thought this one might cause some debate (isn't that what science is all about). I'm still not sure what I think about this movie, there are certainly spots coming into focus, whether they're tracks, impurities, or something entirely else I'll leave that up to the team to decide. There are so...

Take a look at this movie http://stardustathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/myevents_viewer.php?movie_id=42006 ; a bunch of 'specks' come into view towards the lower focal range. With this many objects in such a small area I have to think that they are impurities in the aerogel (but I hope they are tracks), th...