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Re: Practical lunars in today's world
From: Peter Monta
Date: 2016 Apr 6, 17:21 -0700
About 30 seconds. Maybe a little better with multiple sights and averaging.
From: Peter Monta
Date: 2016 Apr 6, 17:21 -0700
Hi Bill,
How accurate can you get the time from a Luna, under good conditions at sea?
Haven't forgotten about posting the star fields from December with the astrometry pipeline---things have been really busy lately.
In fact, the ISS video linked today would seem to be a good candidate for optical navigation. Plenty of stars. How well can the orbit be recovered? Can a good estimate of "down" be made from the many extinction profiles?
Cheers,
Peter
