No such thing as a siderial second.

Le 15/01/2010 05:04, Neville Michie a écrit :

It is an interesting question, we are so used to WWV and GPS with regular time signals to synchronise clocks to mean solar time. One method is to get a pocket calculator to identify a time in the future when a siderial second nearly corresponds to a UTC second and use the PPS pulse from GPS to jam a preset time into the Siderial clock, (or start a halted clock with the correct time preset. How long you have to wait for corresponding seconds depends on how accurate you want it.
cheers, Neville Michie



On 15/01/2010, at 2:25 PM, Bruce Griffiths wrote:

Brian Kirby wrote:
I would like to have an electronic clock to keep sidereal time. I am planning on using a HP 59309A, which can except an external clock of 1/5/10 Mhz.

According to Wikipedia sidereal time is 23 hours 56 minutes and 4.091 seconds - a total of 86,164.091 seconds

So 86,400 seconds for a normal "atomic defined" day divided by 86,164.091 = 1.002,737,903,89

If I set the 59309A to 10 Mhz external clock and dial a synthesizer up to 10.0273790, the unit should be able to keep sidereal time.

Is my math and theory correct ?

Brian - KD4FM

That just gives the rate.
How are you going to set the actual Sidereal time to better than the 0.9s that can be deduced from UTC?

Bruce


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