Steve Allen wrote on 2004-01-29 00:13 UTC:
While the new paradigm of celestial coordinates is rigorously
defined in terms of mathematics, it is lacking in a common
terminology. [...]
http://syrte.obspm.fr/iauWGnfa/
[...] the fact is that it is
difficult to make sense of the proposals
Title: RE: [LEAPSECS] name the equinox contest on now
I agree. I personally am struggling with a fairly fundamental gap in undesrstanding the stuff at this site. One of the documents there (http://syrte.obspm.fr/iauWGnfa/Annex1.doc) gives some definitions that are particularly germane to this
On Thu 2004-01-29T16:20:10 -0500, Seeds, Glen hath writ:
The problem I have is this: All variants of UT are supposed to be a close
approximation of the mean diurnal motion of the Sun. That makes perfect
sense to me. Yet there is nothing in the statements above of how they are
measured that
Steve Allen scripsit:
I offer that I have covered this and given references to the critical
papers in the chain of definitions on my web page at
http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/timescales.html
A great paper! I particularly like this sentence:
Nevertheless, Newcomb knew that
