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Re: automatic celestial navigation
From: Lu Abel
Date: 2008 Jan 14, 20:55 -0800
From: Lu Abel
Date: 2008 Jan 14, 20:55 -0800
frankreed@HistoricalAtlas.net wrote:> An inertial system can be re-aligned by looking at the stars. Fundamentally, > this is nothing more than using the stars as a compass, to tell the > laser-gyros which way they're pointing after some drift has occurred. Somewhere in this discussion, it was pointed out that automatic celestial systems need a vertical reference and this is commonly provided by a gyro system. So I need a celestial system to align my gyros and I need a gyro to align my celestial system??? Lu Abel --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to NavList@fer3.com To , send email to NavList-@fer3.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---