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 hours of the swine, like those of their masters, were not reckoned by either solar or sidereal time, but had been altered, as experiment had demonstrated, to a more efficient cycle.
From City of Endless Night by Hastings, Milo M. (Milo Milton)
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.
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
