Hi Tom, On 09/28/2013 07:49 PM, Tom Knox wrote: > I am just thinking out loud on this, But it seems you could use carrier phase > from plain star light since the light spectrum from stars have spikes and > notches which are constant and using the same concept as the Hubble Constant > a spacecraft could determine speed, direction, and position. Like the GPS > system it will take a very complex algorithm but does not seem beyond today's > technologies. You can use the spectrum to some degree. You can't really do carrier phase, as the sources isn't coherent. The light from a particular star is created from heat and not in laser conditions. Even the spikes coming from atomic resonances isn't coherent either. > And yes all these sources have some stability issues but if they are linear > they can compensated for and if random they can be averaged out. This is why > our Cesium, Rubidium, and GPS references have quartz. The bottom line is we > have already been able to determine there are a number of Pulsars that rival > today's best Cesium clocks and their signals cover vast reaches of space. So > it seems inevitable we will learn to utilize this existing Galactic > Positioning System of the gods. It's being looked at. I believe I saw something about the original statement on stability had been somewhat debunked, but it was still impressive.
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