>[email protected] wrote: >Hi Antonio: > >It turns out that the atmosphere has instabilities that make the >position of a star appear to vary a few arc seconds and that effect is >called "seeing". >Because of the seeing you can not use an optical telescope to make a >measurement of the Earth's rotation to the accuracy needed to see the >slowing down. >See: http://www.prc68.com/I/StellarTime.shtml
On a conceptual basis, the method would work, and this gives me enough peace at the moment. Thanks for the other links, it would take a bit of time to go through. Antonio I8IOV _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
