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
The result will be the distance in sidereal time the star is from your meridian i.e., the time interval from local mean noon expressed in units of sidereal time.
From Lectures in Navigation by Draper, Ernest Gallaudet
When time is calculated by the stars it is called sidereal time; when by the sun, solar, or apparent time.
From Conversations on Natural Philosophy, in which the Elements of that Science are Familiarly Explained by Jones, Thomas P.
A capital bit of horology, the pendulum of which is usually compensated to sidereal time, for astronomical purposes.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir
