What is the Allen Telescope Array?
An array of inexpensive commercial antennas which can be simultaneously used for both SETI and cutting-edge radio astronomy research. Because it will have the ability to study many areas on the sky at once, with more channels and for 24 hours a day, the Allen Telescope Array will permit an expansion of Project Phoenix’s stellar reconnaissance to 100 thousand or even 1 million nearby stars. The Allen Telescope Array is a joint effort by the SETI Institute and the University of California, Berkeley. It will be built at the existing Hat Creek Observatory, run by Berkeley, and located in the Cascades just north of Mt. Lassen (California). Thanks to the far-sighted benevolence of technologists Paul Allen (co-founder of Microsoft) and Nathan Myhrvold (former Chief Technology Officer for Microsoft), this new $26 million telescope array idea will become a reality.
An array of antennas which can be simultaneously used for both SETI and cutting-edge radio astronomy research. Because it will have the ability to study many areas on the sky at once, with more channels and for 24 hours a day, the Allen Telescope Array will permit an expansion of Project Phoenix’s stellar reconnaissance to 100 thousand or even 1 million nearby stars. The Allen Telescope Array is a joint effort by the SETI Institute and the University of California, Berkeley. It will be built at the existing Hat Creek Observatory, run by Berkeley, and located in the Cascades just north of Lassen Peak (California). Thanks to the far-sighted benevolence of technologists Paul Allen (co-founder of Microsoft) and Nathan Myhrvold (former Chief Technology Officer for Microsoft), this new telescope array idea will soon become a reality.
An array of antennas which can be simultaneously used for both SETI and cutting-edge radio astronomy research. Because it will have the ability to study many areas on the sky at once, with more channels and for 24 hours a day, the Allen Telescope Array will permit an expansion of Project Phoenix’s stellar reconnaissance to 100 thousand or even 1 million nearby stars. The Allen Telescope Array is a joint effort by the SETI Institute and the University of California, Berkeley. It will be built at the existing Hat Creek Observatory, run by Berkeley, and located in the Cascades just north of Lassen Peak (California). Thanks to the far-sighted benevolence of technologists Paul Allen (co-founder of Microsoft) and Nathan Myhrvold (former Chief Technology Officer for Microsoft), this new telescope array idea will soon become a reality.
