What is it about?
The paper describes a digital video system intended for occultation observing and recording. Each image in the video recording is timestamped with millisecond accuracy, referred to UT. This is necessary for accurate orbital determination of Near Earth Orbit asteroids, and many other transient celestial phenomena such as asteroidal occultations.
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Analog video is rapidly becoming a legacy system, yet remains the most common camera system for recordings where millisecond accuracy timestamps referred to UT are required. Digital video cameras have no comparable method of timestamping individual frames to the same level of accuracy and precision. ADVS is an attempt to provide a digital video system which has images formally timestamped to the millisecond, referred to UT.
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This page is a summary of: A Digital Video System for Observing and Recording Occultations, Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, January 2015, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/pasa.2015.31.
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