[time-nuts] Earth: An Oscillator and Frequency Standard

[Brooke Clarke]

Hi Tom:

Thanks for the lab test report on the earth frequency standard.  Since 
there are a number of frequency/time standards that have much better 
performance I'd like to find a way to directly measure the performance 
of the earth standard.  I've thought about a telescope looking at stars 
or maybe a photo detector to look at the light from the closest star to 
the earth frequency standard.  Do  you have any ideas on how to make 
these measurements?

Have Fun,

Brooke Clarke

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Tom Van Baak wrote:

>>>Anyway, how do you compute the Allan Deviation of a sun dial?
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>>Oh, God, now someone's going to do it...
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>>John
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>Well, yes, thanks for asking! I did it a year ago.
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>The lab report on earth, including Allan deviation is at:
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>http://www.leapsecond.com/museum/earth/
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>/tvb
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