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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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    The nirayana year is the sidereal year, that is, is the actual time required for the Earth to revolve once around the Sun with respect to a fixed point on the ecliptic, and its duration is approximately 365.256363 days (365 days 6 hours 9 minutes 10 seconds).

  4. Rotation period (astronomy) - Wikipedia

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    176 days [4] Venus: −243.0226 days [ii] [5] −243 d 0 h 33 m: −116.75 days [6] Earth: 0.99726968 days [3] [iii] 0 d 23 h 56 m 4.0910 s: 1.00 days (24 h 00 m 00 s) Moon: 27.321661 days [7] (equal to sidereal orbital period due to spin-orbit locking, a sidereal lunar month) 27 d 7 h 43 m 11.5 s: 29.530588 days [7] (equal to synodic orbital ...

  5. 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 ...

  6. 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). The mean ...

  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. 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 ...

  9. Diurnal motion - Wikipedia

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    The time for one complete rotation is 23 hours, 56 minutes, and 4.09 seconds – one sidereal day. The first experimental demonstration of this motion was conducted by Léon Foucault. Because Earth orbits the Sun once a year, the sidereal time at any given place and time will gain about four minutes against local civil time, every 24 hours ...