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 George C. Comstock
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 Sir Edward Belcher
For the last two days we have been discussing Time - sun time or solar time and star time or sidereal time.
From Lectures in Navigation by Ernest Gallaudet Draper
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