[time-nuts] Result of Earth Quake speeds up earth?
Hal Murray
hmurray at megapathdsl.net
Wed Mar 16 04:36:12 UTC 2011
>> If I were doing this in my backyard on a budget I'd mount a small
>> telescope nearly straight up so that a bright star would pass through
>> the field on several nights. I'd measure the light of the star
>> through a slit and time the peak of the light each night. I bet I
>> could get to about a microsecond. I'm wondering what professionals
>> are doing in this field.
> I have references for VLBI, if you want. You probably cannot do optical
> accurately enough because of "seeing" effects, at least.
What sort of accuracy can I get with:
1) small/medium telescope in suburban back yard
2) small/medium telescope out in the sticks
3) big telescope in a good location
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