-------- Lux, Jim writes: >On 12/27/21 12:18 PM, Brent wrote: >> My understanding (and I could be wrong) is that one could derive 'stellar' >> time from a start sight/fix on polaris or another well tracked celestial >> object. I was once told that early editions of Bowditch provided the >> process (for the moon I was told) although one of the relatively old >> edition's that I have doesn't provide it.
You want a bright star as close to your latitudes Zenith as possible, to get maximum apperant transit velocity. Polaris would be a spectacular bad choice as it barely moves at all. >Occultation of stars by the Moon provides a "universal" time source >(assuming you can see the Moon and stars). Interesting history search term: "Latitude observatory". -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [email protected] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] -- To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to and follow the instructions there.
