[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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