This page is to support the individuals interested in amateur SETI and radio astronomy. Here you will find files, links, and programs to support the development of the hobby. Please check back regularly.

This is not the page for the seti@home program. You need a radio telescope hooked to your computer to make use of software from this page. However, feel free to browse my web pages.

   This is an Excel plot of data I collected, using my home built radio telescope, measuring hydrogen line emissions along the plane of our galaxy. The long sweeping arcs are due to the hydrogen, in various arms of our galaxy, moving at different speeds relative to us resulting in a doppler shift of the hydrogen line emissions. There is also a shift in the frequencies of the emissions due to the motion of the Earth around the sun.

Near 0 degrees longitude on the chart we see a pair of peaks, this is due to hydrogen moving toward us on one side of the core and away from us on the other side. Another peak occurs at at approx 70-80 degrees when the dish is looking along our galactic arm. The peak at 180 degrees is due to the dish looking straight out of the galaxy, so the doppler shift of the hydrogen line emissions is very low.