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  2. Sidereal time - Wikipedia

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    A year has about 365.24 solar days but 366.24 sidereal days. Therefore, there is one fewer solar day per year than there are sidereal days, similar to an observation of the coin rotation paradox. [5] This makes a sidereal day approximately ⁠ 365.24 / 366.24 ⁠ times the length of the 24-hour solar day.

  3. Nirayana system - Wikipedia

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    For example, if the times of sunrise and sunset are 6am and 6pm, the aparahna is [(3/5) x (18 – 6) + 6]am = 1.12pm.) The Bengal rule: When saṃkrānti takes place between sunrise and midnight on that day, the month begins on the following day. If it occurs between midnight and sunrise, the month begins on the third day. (In some special ...

  4. Rotation period (astronomy) - Wikipedia

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    The first one corresponds to the sidereal rotation period (or sidereal day), i.e., ... This page was last edited on 13 November 2024, at 01:02 (UTC).

  5. Solar time - Wikipedia

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    On a prograde planet like the Earth, the sidereal day is shorter than the solar day. At time 1, the Sun and a certain distant star are both overhead. At time 2, the planet has rotated 360° and the distant star is overhead again (1→2 = one sidereal day). But it is not until a little later, at time 3, that the Sun is overhead again (1→3 = one solar day). More simply, 1→2 is a complete ...

  6. Sidereal Astrology Might Change The Way You Read Your Birth Chart

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    But there's another system, too, called sidereal astrology. An astrologer explains. Skip to main content. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ...

  7. Sidereal year - Wikipedia

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    The sidereal year is 20 min 24.5 s longer than the mean tropical year at J2000.0 (365.242 190 402 ephemeris days). [ 1 ] At present, the rate of axial precession corresponds to a period of 25,772 years, [ 3 ] so sidereal year is longer than tropical year by 1,224.5 seconds (20 min 24.5 s, ~365.24219*86400/25772).

  8. Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Mathematics/2017 April 9

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    The sidereal day is actually 23:56:04 (to the nearest second). Loraof 13:48, 10 April 2017 (UTC) No they don't go up to ~23:56:04 then roll over. Those are solar seconds. The point of sidereal clocks is to show the currently highest right ascension so they go up to 24 o'clock = 0 o'clock. Then 00:00:01 or infinitesimally close to zero if it's a ...

  9. Earth's rotation - Wikipedia

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    Thus, the sidereal day is shorter than the stellar day by about 8.4 ms. [37] Both the stellar day and the sidereal day are shorter than the mean solar day by about 3 minutes 56 seconds. This is a result of the Earth turning 1 additional rotation, relative to the celestial reference frame, as it orbits the Sun (so 366.24 rotations/y).