Re: GPS Timing
Subject: Re: GPS Timing
From: Paul Hirose (paulhirose@XXX.XXX)
Date: Mon Jul 29 2002 - 13:32:12 EDT
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
