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Even the closest star to us is so far away that the sidereal day is the same, no matter what star you use to measure it.
Over the past few sidereal days more radio signals from an as-yet-unidentified source have been detected.
The faster the Earth orbits the Sun, the fewer solar days per sidereal year we see.
There is also the anomalistic year, although this is even less used than the sidereal year.
Two physical variables that have been linked to free-response ESP scores, geomagnetism and local sidereal time, are additionally examined.
Two clocks were used, one keeping mean time i.e. 24 hours a day, the other sidereal time of 23 hours, 56 minutes and 4 seconds to the day.
In different Indian lunisolar calendars the lunar month is used, mixed with the sidereal month.
The reason that sidereal days are shorter is that while the Earth rotates on its axis, it is also moving around the Sun.
The first of these is called the sidereal year while the second is called the tropical year.
He discovered that in 7 cycles of 12 years, Jupiter had completed seven and one twelfth orbits, giving its sidereal period as 11.859 years.
Slightly brighter today is Alpherg, which is taken as the starting point for the sidereal zodiac.
Each year is still equivalent to the sidereal period of the Earth, one revolution around the Sun.
Because of the precession of the equinoxes the tropical year is shorter by about 21 minutes than the sidereal year.
It gave mean solar time, mean sidereal time, equation of time, and could chart the phases of the moon.
The small signal in sidereal time can be easily influenced by the solar diurnal anisotropy changing during a year.
She believes the mural depicts a celebration of the convergence of the sidereal and tropical zodiacs and the ingress of the vernal point into Pisces.
At the upper transit of a body to the meridian, its right ascension is equal to the true sidereal time.
The true sidereal time is related to the true equinox and the mean sidereal time is related to the mean equinox of the date.
For a given location and at a given date the sum of the true right ascension of a body and of its hour angle is equal to the true sidereal time.
Venus spins very slowly, taking about 243 Earth days to complete one rotation with respect to the stars the length of its sidereal day.
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In reducing these days to years the sidereal year was taken as the Standard year.
The latter are divided into sidereal hours, minutes and seconds as the solar day is.
And that one should consider the sidereal system and the maxims of Epictetus and be comforted.
These sidereal time-keepers mark the centuries and eras of other worlds for you.
So the constitution of the sidereal universe is just like that of the bodies which we call material.
Not only nebul are probably unstable, but also many of the sidereal systems.
But because that has gone from the sidereal chart, it does not follow that there is no such place.
His acts of faith shone like the Jacinth of heaven, the color of sidereal fires.
The instrument was turned in answer to these questions to the sidereal heavens.
The diurnal rotation of the earth cannot stand in the same astronomical system with the diurnal rotation of the sidereal sphere.
This 5th day is the sidereal day of the astronomers and is the basis of our time, so it is entitled to a little attention.
This is sidereal time which agrees with mean time on March 22d, and gains on the latter at the rate of two hours a month.
The sidereal time at any moment is the right ascension of the hour circle which at that moment coincides with the meridian.
Having set the clock approximately to sidereal time, observe one or two more stars in the same way as above.
One can not tell off-hand whether 10 hours, sidereal time, falls in the day or in the night.
A capital bit of horology, the pendulum of which is usually compensated to sidereal time, for astronomical purposes.
He assigns the Parthenon to a hill of ages, and the temples of Upper Egypt to sidereal time.
In the 17th century it was a favourite device to make a clock show sidereal time as well as mean solar time.
By taking this amount from the sidereal we obtain the tropical year, which has reference to the seasons and the calendar.
One of the company's first breakthroughs, it was used to measure sidereal time based on the earth's rotation against fixed stars.
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