Re: Amateurs to provide observations to USAF?

Allen Thomson (thomsona@flash.net)
Thu, 15 Apr 1999 08:35:33 -0500

Tony Beresford said,

>The converted Baker-Nunn currently on siding spring mountain,( University
of NSW >automatic patrol telescope)  with CCD detector has 9 arc second
pixels,
>so could probably get 1 arc second accuracy in satellite astrometry if the
>timing can be solved.

Isn't GPS (small irony here) the natural solution for timing and
synchronization of observations?