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Hi,
Since the successor of the classic SETI@home project, which --- you know --- is based on BOINC, the Starry Night Plug-In for this project is not compatible with SETI@home any longer. I have asked Starry Night, if they are planning to develop a new version which will work with BOINC. Not now at least, they told me.
Fortunately, they were so kind to put the source code of this plug in on their website. For those who don't know this, on the following location you can download the source code: http://www.starrynight.com/support/sdk.html
May be we should take fate in our own hands and start coding ourselves. However, I'm not a programmer, and therefore, I don't know if it's possible to do this with the source code they provide. Or, if it's possible at all to write such a plug in for BOINC/SETI!?!
Anyway, if it is possible, is there someone out there who is capable of modifying/wants to modify the existing Starry Night Plug-In for the new SETI@home or starting from bottomup? So, that it will be compatible with BOINC/SETI, again!
(Last edited by falofolio; Aug 1, 2004 at 03:12 PM.
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Starry Night is astronomy software. How does it tie into SETI, does it point out where a work unit comes from?
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Taken from the SN website:
What does the SETI display in Starry Night do?
The SETI plug-in for Starry Night shows you where in the sky the SETI@Home screen saver on your computer is currently looking. You run the plug-in by choosing "Go->Center/Update SETI Position" from the Starry Night menu. You need to have the SETI@Home screensaver running on your computer for this plug-in to work. In addition to showing you where SETI@Home is currently searching, the plug-in also shows you where the highest signals have been found so far.
Sounds pretty cool, it would be a shame if it wasn't brought into boinc.
I've had both seti and starry night for a long time, and never knew about this!
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With the plugin source code, such a modification is practical. The plugin will read your client config files, and (possibly) check the Berkeley site for additional info. One or both of those have changed, the plugin would need adjusting to the new data sources.
I don't have time right now to dig into it. 
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Originally posted by reader50:
Starry Night is astronomy software. How does it tie into SETI, does it point out where a work unit comes from?
 It seems I started asking about a slightly unknown plug-in for Starry Night. Therefore, please go to the next location to find a sample image how it looks like in Starry Night with some extra clarifications on this very cool feature:
http://www.starrynight.com/support/K...id=89&c=39
At the end of the page, you will find a link to download the plug in.
However, to be clear once again: The plug in is only compatible with the classical SETI@home-screensaver application. This one will be --- as we all know --- discontinued in the nearby future, and it will go on in its new re-incarnated form of BOINC/SETI. And that's the problem right now (for those who love this extension to the Starry Night software): unfortunately, the Starry Night Plug-In hasn't been yet made compatible with BOINC/SETI!!!
(Last edited by falofolio; Aug 2, 2004 at 10:08 AM.
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