In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Peter Bunclark writes:
>On Sat, 7 Jan 2006, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>Research-quality telescopes, in particular all the ones built in the last
>few decades on alt-azimuth mounts, do of course use UT1; a 0.9s error
>would be a complex ~10 arcsec error in both axes and give a quite useless
>pointing performance. However, UTC is often used as a UT1 delivery
>system;
It sounds to me like BIPM ought to make an Internet service available
which will deliver UT1 to astronomers in a timely fashion ?
Something as simple as
finger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Or even just a more stringent formatting of the bulletins on the ftp
site could do it as well.
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