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Re: Air Force Lab Plans R&D into Celestial-Aided Navigation Tech
From: Peter Monta
Date: 2019 Jun 2, 18:28 -0700
From: Peter Monta
Date: 2019 Jun 2, 18:28 -0700
If stabilization is purely inertial, a 3-second exposure will give 45-arcsecond trails at the focal plane.
Thinking about it some more, I think this is not the case. The camera is already doing the right thing. The Earth rotation is just another nuisance noninertial motion for the camera to track out.
Cheers,
Peter
