sidereal

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And Sideræl — pronounced “sigh-deer-ee-el” — is “a more elven” spelling of sidereal, “the true time of the universe, star time, deep space time, not our relative earth time,” she explained.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 27, 2023

I mean, it still feels like fall, by the rhythm of the sidereal calendar I had imprinted in me by Sid and Marty Krofft.

From New York Times • Sep. 6, 2022

Despite these shortcomings, Price identified a gear train—a set of linked gears—that calculated the average position of the moon on any specific date by using its period relation of 254 sidereal rotations in 19 years.

From Scientific American • Dec. 14, 2021

Mr Beck, Rocket Lab’s wise man, has taken it upon himself to create his own sidereal epiphany.

From The Guardian • Jan. 29, 2018

That’s where Mercer’s triumph manifests itself, there at the end of the great sidereal cycle.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick