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Re: Air Force Lab Plans R&D into Celestial-Aided Navigation Tech
From: Frank Reed
Date: 2019 Jun 2, 18:56 -0700
From: Frank Reed
Date: 2019 Jun 2, 18:56 -0700
Peter Monta, you wrote:
"The camera is already doing the right thing. The Earth rotation is just another nuisance noninertial motion for the camera to track out."
Wow. I read your first post and thought, 'yes, good point'. But this makes excellent sense. The rotation detected is relative to the cosmological rest frame ..."the distant stars". So if (big if) the camera can stabilize relative to all rotational accelerations, then it will automatically track the stars. Nice!
Frank Reed
