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Subject: Re: accuracy of automatic celestial navigation
From: Vic Fraenckel (vfraenc1@XXX.XXX)
Date: Sun Dec 08 2002 - 19:00:59 EST
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
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