[time-nuts] UTC and leap seconds
iovane at inwind.it
iovane at inwind.it
Fri Jun 11 17:14:28 UTC 2010
>brooke at pacific.net 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
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