"Dale Ireland" <direland@drdale.com> > any handheld GPS unit will display time with sub-millisecond accuracy. You don't have to worry about WWV reception anymore. > Also, I have done lunar occultation timing for years, starting with the stopwatch method. Careful studies showed that while many > people "thought" they were getting 0.1 second or less accuracy they always were around 0.3 second accuracy. Just nerve conduction > and muscle contraction takes significant time. Most consumer handheld GPS receivers update their displays at a relatively low priority. The displayed time is often off by several hundred milliseconds, and (in rare cases) off by several seconds. Jim ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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