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Re: GPS Timing
From: Paul Hirose
Date: 2002 Jul 29, 10:32 -0700
From: Paul Hirose
Date: 2002 Jul 29, 10:32 -0700
Vic Fraenckel wrote: > > | Surely for celestial navigation, errors of sighting are MUCH worse than > the > | possible 1 or 2 second errors of GPS time as transmitted in the NMEA > | sentence. Since time seconds and arc seconds roughly correspond in this > | application, I would ask whether you seriously think you can measure the > | position of a celestial body to within 1 arc second under normal > navigation > | conditions. > | > > Does this response make any sense? No, the individual clearly had no clue about the relationship between H and time. I hope that absurd statement was not allowed to stand unchallenged. Maybe you'll get better info on the other (older) GPS newsgroup. news:sci.geo.satellite-nav
