Re: [time-nuts] Re Danjon Astrolabe

2006-09-29 Thread Robert Atkinson
How about pinching an idea from the early radar and missile technologies - Conical Scanning. Basically you offset the detector of feed antenna from the point of focus and then rotate it. If the signal is off centre you get sinusoidal modulation of the signal. The phase of the modulation tells the

Re: [time-nuts] Re Danjon Astrolabe

2006-09-29 Thread buehl
Hi all: Robert's pinching an idea from the early - - brings to mind what we did in the early days of video/ TV. Hope this inspires some useful ideas. To measure spot size on CRT, a small slit was placed against the TV or oscilloscope screen and a photo sensor measured the light intensity

Re: [time-nuts] Re Danjon Astrolabe

2006-09-29 Thread Dr Bruce Griffiths
buehl wrote: Hi all: Robert's pinching an idea from the early - - brings to mind what we did in the early days of video/ TV. Hope this inspires some useful ideas. To measure spot size on CRT, a small slit was placed against the TV or oscilloscope screen and a photo sensor measured the

Re: [time-nuts] Re Danjon Astrolabe

2006-09-29 Thread Scott Newell
At 09:22 AM 9/29/2006 , buehl wrote: the fiber. I have had good results attaching one end of cheap plastic fiber to tip of photodiode with clear glue or epoxy. Cheap plastic fiber like that used in decorative lamps, or experimentor type sold by Radio Shack, will also pass IR for short

Re: [time-nuts] Re Danjon Astrolabe

2006-09-29 Thread Tom Van Baak
Accuracy still won't be much better than1% of the solar diameter or about 1 second of time nowhere near the o.1 sec or better hoped for. Bruce Bruce, Can you show us how to derive the accuracy number? I would have guessed that with fractional degree Al-El steering, a rotary encoder, 12

[time-nuts] Interesting Graphical Clock

2006-09-29 Thread Brooke Clarke
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Re: [time-nuts] Interesting Graphical Clock

2006-09-29 Thread tom
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