[fitswcs] FITS WCS Time Paper

Rob Seaman seaman at noao.edu
Wed Mar 21 14:03:19 EDT 2012


I agree about the punctuation, especially the quotes around "fictitious mean Sun".  Arguably the mean Sun is more real than the apparent Sun.

Rob
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On Mar 21, 2012, at 10:54 AM, Arnold Rots wrote:

> Thank you, Pat!
> 
> The first comments needs some thought; the second is easy:
> I will just include proper references to Newcomb (1895 and 1898);
> the same is true for the section on ET.

patrick.wallace at stfc.ac.uk wrote:

>> A.9. UT
>> 
>> "UT was initially defined by Newcomb's fictitious mean sun Tables of
>>  the Sun, Astr. Papers Amer. Ephemeris 6, 1895 The name Universal
>>  Time was established as the subdivision of the Universal Day by
>>  Commission 4 of the IAU at the IIIth General Assembly in 1928 at
>>  Leiden (IAU, 1928 13 )."
>> 
>>  This needs some brackets and other punctuation.  Perhaps
>> 
>>  ...by Newcomb's "fictitious mean Sun" (Tables of the Sun, Astr.
>>  Papers Amer. Ephemeris 6, 1895). The name... 





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