[time-nuts] Sidereal timekeeping

[iovane at inwind.it]

Michael wrote:
>> You are right, the right value for the crystal would be about 32859.27, but 
I
>> thought that such a difference could be compensated in the circuitry, 
that's
>> why I omitted the decimals.
>>
>before you get into grinding I have a question on your chosen frequency. 
>It doesn't square for me.
>
>     1,002737909350795  solar/sidereal time ratio
>
>              x 32768  crystal frequency
>
>32857,72   required frequency for sidereal clock with 2^15 divider chain

I agree with your calculation.

Here I ask Jim Lux for help, as when I wrote the first post I simply took that 
value from his article without re-checking.

http://www.techbriefs.com/component/content/article/2299

Do we miss anything, Jim?

Antonio I8IOV