The EJASA article on Optical SETI

The Electronic Journal of the Astronomical Society of the Atlantic (EJASA). Volume 3, Number 6, Parts A-F, January 1992.

Copyright (c) 1992 - ASA

This article contains the definitive account of Stuart Kingsley's Optical SETI rationale, and was responsible for the author being asked by SPIE (The International Society for Optical Engineering) to arrange and chair The First International Conference on Optical SETI. This was held in Los Angeles in January 1993. A second conference was held in San Jose in January 1996. It is expected that a third conference will be held in 1999.

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• Part 1: Foreword, Contents.

• Part 2: Preface.

• Part 3: Introduction, The Microwave Observation Project (MOP), Assumption of Ineptitude, Professional Optical SETI.

• Part 4: Project Cyclops, SETI Comparisons - Part A.

• Part 5: SETI Comparisons - Part B, Lasers, Fraunhofer Lines, The Optical Search.

• Part 6: Professional CO2 SETI, Incoherent Optical SETI at 10,600 nm, Adaptive Telescope Technology, The Columbus Telescope Project, Optical SETI Rationale.

• Part 7: Amateur Optical SETI, How to build your own Amateur Optical SETI Observatory - Part A.

• Part 8: How to build your own Amateur Optical SETI Observatory - Part B, The Microwave and Optical Observing Project (MOOP), List of previous and present Optical SETI activities.

• Part 9: Discussion, Conclusions.

• Part 10: References.

• Part 11: Theory and Specimen Calculations - Part A.

• Part 12: Theory and Specimen Calculations - Part B.

• Part 13: Theory and Specimen Calculations - Part C.

• Part 14: The SETI Protocols, Index.