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I pre-registered when I first heard and it has been a while. Today when I logged in to see the latest news I found this. Things are looking up! They have links to the tutorial session (I decided to post the news here before clicking), a message board, and hopefully soon some stardust microscope movies to look at.<br /><br />http://stardustathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/news.php<br /><br /><font color="yellow"><b>News</b><br />May 17, 2006<br /><br />Today we are rolling out the Mark 2 version of the Stardust@home website. Unfortunately, we are not able to begin the actual stardust search today as we have not been able to collect enough image data from the automated scanning microscope. There have been several technical difficulties with the microscope that have caused this delay. Because of this, the testing, registration, and virtual microscope features of this website are not yet enabled.<br /><br />All other portions of the site are fully functional, including our Tutorial in the Stardust Search section, and the Message Board in the Community section. We highly encourage all potential volunteers to sign up for and use the message board.<br /><br />Pre-registration has now ended. As we have promised, we will send out one email to all pre-registered volunteers when we launch the virtual microscope and image data from the Stardust interstellar dust collector. </font><br /><br />Edit:<br />Well, it turns out that the tutorial section has a functional microscope simulator and about ten movies. There are about 40 images per movie and the focus adjustment switches between the various depths pretty smoothly. Reminds me of Biology class. The download time is pretty reasonable on dial-up so it should be lightning fast on broadband. I'm starting to get excited about finding a fleck of stardust myself!<br /><br /><font color="yellow"> For the following training tutorial,</font> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>