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Re: accuracy of automatic celestial navigation
From: Vic Fraenckel
Date: 2002 Dec 8, 19:00 -0500
From: Vic Fraenckel
Date: 2002 Dec 8, 19:00 -0500
I have often thought that it might be possible to build a digital sextant. There are absolute angle encoders capable of measuring angles to arc-second accuracy and timing devices (gps based) accurate to sub-second accuracy so it might be possible. For what it's worth! Vic ________________________________________________________ Victor Fraenckel - The Windman vfraenc1@nycap.rr.com KC2GUI www.windsway.com Home of the WindReader Electronic Theodolite Read the WIND "Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival." - Winston [Leonard Spencer] Churchill (1874 - 1965) Dost thou not know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed? -Count Oxenstierna (ca 1620)