Sentences with phrase «instrument observation error»

Singh writes, «The first one is the instrument observation error.

Not exact matches

Unlike previous pointing systems used by NASA, the WASP can accurately point highly sensitive instruments at the right observation targets with a margin of error of less than one arc - second.

That nugget effectively represents the sum of all errors at the average station, including errors due to different instruments, errors due to different observation practices, siting errors, etc..

Issues such as short and long term drift, aging, hysteresis, and non-linearity in each of these, as well as the quality of initial calibration and calibration markings all introduce errors within an instrument that are not removed by averaging observations.