sidereal time

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But one puzzling signal showed up most days at the same sidereal time.

From Scientific American • Aug. 3, 2018

Astronomers prefer sidereal time for planning their observations because in that system, a star rises at the same time every day.

From Textbooks • Oct. 13, 2016

Exercise 9.—Set such a clock to sidereal time by means of the transit of a star over your meridian.

From A Text-Book of Astronomy by Comstock, George C.

The sidereal time at any moment is the right ascension of the hour circle which at that moment coincides with the meridian.

From A Text-Book of Astronomy by Comstock, George C.

Now let us examine time by the stars - sidereal time.

From Lectures in Navigation by Draper, Ernest Gallaudet