sidereal day

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sidereal time
- In sidereal time
  …of sidereal time is the sidereal day, which is subdivided into 24 sidereal hours, 1,440 sidereal minutes, and 86,400 sidereal seconds. Astronomers rely on sidereal clocks because any given star will transit the same meridian at the same sidereal time throughout the year. The sidereal day is almost 4 minutes…
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day
- In day
  The sidereal day is the time required for the Earth to rotate once relative to the background of the stars—i.e., the time between two observed passages of a star over the same meridian of longitude. The apparent solar day is the time between two successive transits…
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hour
- In hour
  The hour of sidereal time, 1/24 of the Earth’s rotation period relative to the stars, was about 10 seconds shorter than the hour of mean solar time.
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