astronomical day
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To find an odd hour during this astronomical day, subtract .2 from the preceding even hour.
From Lectures in Navigation by Draper, Ernest Gallaudet
In the Conference at Rome the universal day was made to coincide with the astronomical day.
The astronomical day is reckoned from noon to noon, continuously through the twenty-four hours, like the other days.
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
The astronomical day based on the sun, is 24 hours long, as said before.
From Lectures in Navigation by Draper, Ernest Gallaudet
This most useful star is the lucida of the Little Bear, round which the other components of the constellation and the rest of the heavens appear to revolve in the course of the astronomical day.
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
