Hi:
A friend has an observatory and needs very precise time. It turns out
that the best way is to command the system to point to some star then
manually move the scope to put the star on the cross hairs. Doing this
a half dozen times and then fitting the data results in the system
knowing the time to maybe a millisecond.
Doing an NTP sync or having a fancy time base in the control computer
can only get within hundreds of a second. Remember that all the
broadcast time signals are to the nearest second but WWV and WWVB send
the tenths of a second offset for astronomical time but using that he
could get to the nearest tenth of a second. But the above procedure
gets him to maybe a millisecond. I say "maybe" because how well the
scope points in terms of arc seconds of angle depends on many factors.
So, maybe if you really want precision time you also need a very good
observatory?
Have Fun,
Brooke Clarke
http://www.PRC68.com
http://www.End2PartyGovernment.com/
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