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 apparent time by the sun, or the sidereal time of the moon, or planets, or stars, from the meridian.
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
The middle of this period may be taken as the time at which the star crossed the meridian and at this moment the sidereal time is equal to the right ascension of the star.
From A Text-Book of Astronomy by George C. Comstock
Convert this sidereal time interval into a mean time interval by always subtracting the reduction for the proper number of hours, minutes and seconds as given in Table 8, Bowditch.
From Lectures in Navigation by Ernest Gallaudet Draper
