Sidereal time ("sidereal" pronounced /saɪˈdɪəriəl, sə-/ sy-DEER-ee-əl, sə-) is a system of timekeeping used especially by astronomers. Using sidereal...

up sidereal in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Sidereal, meaning "of the stars", may refer to: Sidereal time Sidereal day Sidereal month Sidereal year...

Anti-sidereal time and extended-sidereal time are artificial time standards used to analyze the daily variation in the number of cosmic rays received on...

Rotation period – time that it takes to complete one revolution around its axis of rotation Satellite revisit period Sidereal time Sidereal year Opposition...

A sidereal year (/saɪˈdɪəri.əl/, US also /sɪ-/; from Latin sidus 'asterism, star'), also called a sidereal orbital period, is the time that Earth or another...

minutes 56 seconds longer than a mean sidereal day, or 1⁄366 more than a mean sidereal day. In astronomy, sidereal time is used to predict when a star will...

types of time reckoning based on astronomical observations: apparent solar time and mean solar time (discussed in this article), and sidereal time, which...

star it is orbiting, and is the basis of solar time. The synodic day is distinguished from the sidereal day, which is one complete rotation in relation...

value of its turning number. The paradox is related to sidereal time: a sidereal day is the time Earth takes to rotate for a distant star to return to...

standard unit (SI unit) for science. Celestial sphere-based: as in sidereal time, where the apparent movement of the stars and constellations across...

time standards such as sidereal time and ephemeris time, for most practical purposes, by newer time standards based wholly or partly on atomic time using...

called mean sidereal time; if the true equinox is used (the actual location of the equinox at a given instant), it is called apparent sidereal time. The difference...

equation of time for that date. A third method did not use the equation of time; instead, it used stellar observations to give sidereal time, exploiting...

the local sidereal time, α object {\displaystyle \alpha _{\text{object}}} is the object's right ascension, GST is Greenwich sidereal time and λ observer...

Rotation Angle (ERA, which serves as the replacement for Greenwich Mean Sidereal Time). UT1 is the same everywhere on Earth. UT1 is required to follow the...

Hours, minutes and seconds of sidereal time (3 functions) Time of sunset and sunrise (2 functions) Equation of time Perpetual calendar Days of the month...

Southern Hemisphere. In astronomy, the March equinox is the zero point of sidereal time and, consequently, the right ascension and ecliptic longitude. It also...

time of a solar day, while reoccurring every sidereal day. The remaining small changes in the culmination period time from sidereal year to sidereal year...

orbits the Sun once a year, the sidereal time at any given place and time will gain about four minutes against local civil time, every 24 hours, until, after...

the sky. An object's right ascension and the local sidereal time can be used to determine the time of its culmination (see hour angle). The term meridian...

into Greenwich Mean Time or Universal Time at that same instant. The astrologer then has to convert this into the local sidereal time at birth in order...

definitions. The first one corresponds to the sidereal rotation period (or sidereal day), i.e., the time that the object takes to complete a full rotation...

astronomers to use the stars to measure sidereal time, which provided an accurate method for setting clocks. The equation of time was engraved on sundials so that...

position of the Sun on the ecliptic and the current zodiac sign, the sidereal time, and other astronomical data such as the Moon's nodes for indicating...

Sidereus Nuncius (usually Sidereal Messenger, also Starry Messenger or Sidereal Message) is a short astronomical treatise (or pamphlet) published in Neo-Latin...

Planetarium dial Display of zone solar time (as opposed to standard time) Display of true local solar time Display of sidereal time Alarm Passing strike (chiming...

\varepsilon }} where θ L {\displaystyle \theta _{\rm {L}}} is the local sidereal time and ε {\displaystyle \varepsilon } is the obliquity of the ecliptic...

apparent retrograde motion/planetary stations, planetary ingresses, sidereal time, positions for the mean and true nodes of the moon, the phases of the...

In astrology, sidereal and tropical are terms that refer to two different systems of ecliptic coordinates used to divide the ecliptic into twelve "signs"...

intersects the celestial equator. Right ascension is usually measured in sidereal hours, minutes and seconds instead of degrees, a result of the method of...