On Sun, 8 Jan 2006, Tom Van Baak wrote:
Peter,
So where do these modern telescope get UT1? Do you or
The last time I was involved personally was during my time as a support
astronomer at the Isaac Newton Group on La Palma in the early nineties.
We had a radio receiver which required upcoming
On Sat, 7 Jan 2006, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
What Astronomers use UTC for, in your own many times repeated words,
is a convenient approximation of UT1, and consequently it follows
that if instead of an approximation astronomers used the Real Thing,
leap seconds could harmlessly be removed
On Sun 2006-01-08T12:41:21 +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp hath writ:
It sounds to me like BIPM ought to make an Internet service available
which will deliver UT1 to astronomers in a timely fashion ?
That would have to be the IERS.
Something as simple as
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Or even
On Jan 8, 2006, at 4:41 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
It sounds to me like BIPM ought to make an Internet service
available which will deliver UT1 to astronomers in a timely fashion ?
Not sure BIPM is necessarily the appropriate agent, but otherwise
agree 100%. Perhaps we should seek other
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Steve Allen writes:
Something as simple as
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Or even just a more stringent formatting of the bulletins on the ftp
site could do it as well.
I do not believe that any of the IERS bureaus have internet
connections and servers which
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Peter Bunclark writes:
On Sun, 8 Jan 2006, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
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You mean [EMAIL PROTECTED] That would be quiet useful. Otherwise let's not
bother with NTP protocol, just [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I don't really care what the service is
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;
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Rob Seaman writes:
Astronomers use UT1. Astronomers use UTC. Astronomers are among the
biggest users of TAI and GPS and likely any other timescale you care
to name.
And they certainly have a lot of trouble seeing the rest of the world
in for the brightness of
Rob Seaman scripsit:
Unless we *completely* change our notion of Canoli, Canoli is tightly
constrained to follow Eclair simply by the fact that today and
tomorrow and the million days that follow are all required to be dark
at night and light in the day.
I think you are getting carried away
Poul-Henning Kamp scripsit:
By your logic, the U.S. Surgeon General should be a chiropractor.
Once the US government tries to shoulder their national deficit
that would undoubtedly be a good idea.
Chiropractors are by no means cheaper to hire than other doctors.
Nor are their treatments
On Jan 7, 2006, at 11:37 AM, John Cowan wrote:Whether we choose to bleed off the daily accumulating milliseconds one second or 3600 at a time, bleed them we must...and even people who loathe the very notion of leap seconds admit this. NO, I DON'T ADMIT THAT. On the contrary, I deny it, flatly,
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