SIDEREAL TIME

(ST), time measured relative to the fixed stars; thus, the sidereal day is the period during which the earth completes one rotation on its axis so that some chosen star appears twice on the observer's celestial meridian. Because the earth moves in its orbit about the sun, the sidereal day is about 4 min shorter than the solar day (see solar time). Thus, a given star will appear to rise 4 min earlier each night, so that different stars are visible at different times of the year. The local sidereal time of an observer is equal to the hour angle of the vernal equinox.

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books on: Sidereal Time  - 455 results

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The Concept of Time in Psychology: A Resource Book and Annotated Bibliography
Book by Jon E. Roeckelein; Greenwood Press, 2000
Subjects: Time Perception, Time--Psychological Aspects, Time--Psychological Aspects--Bibliography
...incorporate a cesium atomic beam as the "pendulum" of the clock. Sidereal is a term that relates to stars or constellations. Sidereal time is the time based on the sidereal day consisting of 24 hours of sidereal minutes and seconds. Sidereal...
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Time, the Familiar Stranger
Book by J. T. Fraser; University of Massachusetts Press, 1987
Subjects: Time
...Observatories usually have a clock that shows sidereal time. Because of the precession of the equinoxes, the sidereal year of 1985 was 365.256,363 ephemeris...closest to the sun ; it is longer than the sidereal year. For 1985 it was 365.259,641...
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Time, the Greatest Innovator: Timekeeping and Time Consciousness in Early Modern Europe
Book by Rachel Doggett, Susan Jaskot, Robert Rand; Folger Shakespeare Library, 1986
Subjects: Horology--History--Exhibitions, Time In Literature, Time--History--Exhibitions
...1 The Astronomical Basis of Time Reckoning Throughout human...time average out. A day of sidereal time is defined as one rotation...to rotate 360 degrees. The sidereal day is approximately 3 minutes...Although the length of the sidereal day is nearly constant, it...
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A Psychology of Orientation: Time Awareness across Life Stages and in Dementia
Book by Allen Jack Edwards; Praeger, 2002
Subjects: Dementia--Treatment, Time Perception, Time Perspective, Time--Psychological Aspects
...involved in solving problems of time and space in former times with a passage that is both...well that t he paradoxes of time can indeed unhinge us p. 338...fixed stars. This star time or sidereal time became the basis for determining...between the two. Using mean sidereal time, the earth completes...
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Mastered by the Clock: Time, Slavery, and Freedom in the American South
Book by Mark M. Smith; University of North Carolina Press, 1997
Subjects: Plantation Life--Southern States--History--18th Century, Plantation Life--Southern States--History--19th Century, Slavery--Southern States--History--18th Century, Slavery--Southern States--History--19th Century, Southern States--Social Conditions, Time--Social Aspects--Southern States--History--18th Century, Time--Social Aspects--Southern States--History--19th Century
...same ambivalence to standard time that white newspapers reflected...a week or so after the new time came into effect, it posted...which read, simply, "The new time is a nuisance." On the whole...by the sun" and insisted on sidereal time to "estimate the time...
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journal articles on: Sidereal Time  - 73 results

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Higher Anticipatory Response at 13.5 [+ or -] 1 H Local Sidereal Time in Zebra finches/Hohere Antizipatorische Reaktion Um 13.5 [+ or -] 1 H Lokaler Sternzeit Bei zebrafinken/Reaction Anticipatoire Augmentee a 13.5 [+ or -] 1 H Temps Sideral Local Avec Des Diamants mandarins/Respuesta Anticipatoria De Alta Magnitud Durante Tiempo Sideral Local En 13.5 [+ or -] 1 H En Mandarin Listado
Journal article by Fernando Alvarez; The Journal of Parapsychology, Vol. 74, 2010
Subjects: Zebra finch
...at 13.5 + or - 1 H Local Sidereal Time in Zebra finches/Hohere...responses in relation to local sidereal time (LST), that is, the...done with Calendar Date and Time to Julian Day and Sidereal Times (version 7.2.7), available...
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Local Sidereal Time, Global Geomagnetic Field Fluctuations, and Traffic Accidents
Journal article by Joakim Westerlund, Jan Dalkvist; The Journal of Parapsychology, Vol. 63, 1999
Subjects: Geomagnetic reversals--Analysis, Parapsychology and science--Analysis
LOCAL SIDEREAL TIME, GLOBAL GEOMAGNETIC FIELD FLUCTUATIONS, AND TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS. by...Anomalous Cognition (AC) effect size appears to be associated with Local Sidereal Time (LST) and that correlations between AC effect size and Global Geomagnetic...
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Local Sidereal Time, Global Geomagnetic Field Fluctuations and Memory
Journal article by Jan Dalkvist, Joakim Westerlund; The Journal of Parapsychology, Vol. 64, 2000
Subjects: Geomagnetism--Research, Memory--Research, Parapsychology--Research
LOCAL SIDEREAL TIME, GLOBAL GEOMAGNETIC FIELD FLUCTUATIONS AND MEMORY. by JAN DALKVIST...anomalous cognition (AC) effect size appears to be associated with local sidereal time (LST) and that correlations between AC effect size and global geomagnetic...
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Family Ties: Constructing Family Time in Low-income Families
Journal article by Carolyn Y. Tubbs, Kevin M. Roy, Linda M. Burton; Family Process, Vol. 44, 2005
Subjects: Families & family life, Family counseling, Low income groups, Quality of life, Time management
...families in urban environments. Family Time and Daily Activities Four categories of...the parent-child interaction: talk time, mealtime, playtime, and sharing treats. At times, some of these activities overlapped...lost control over how to allocate family time, and at times even endanger their own health through...
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Time, Space, and Motion in the Age of Shakespeare
Journal article by Angelica Duran; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 61, 2008
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Time, Space, and Motion in the Age of Shakespeare (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews
...about the intersections of "time, space, and motion," as...representations and stakes of time, space, and motion in such influential works as Galileos Sidereal Messenger, Marlowes Doctor...leads his readers slowly and at times even tenderly through a "language...mimetic of Fletchers claims about time: for the chapters are engagingly...
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magazine articles on: Sidereal Time  - 19 results

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Doubling Time
Magazine article by Neil de Grasse Tyson; Natural History, Vol. 109, October 2000
Subjects: Astrophysics, Research, Science, Trends
Doubling Time by Neil de Grasse Tyson...living in such backward times"? It seems whenever...that concerned with the sidereal researches of the last...require a volume many times the size of the present...as living in a special time. A quantitative analysis...are controlled in real time by a user-friendly...three scientific doubling times and thirty Moores law...
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Commonplace Book
Magazine article by Andre Bernard; American Scholar, Vol. 68, Autumn 1999
Subjects: Time in literature--Quotations, Time--Portrayals, Time--Quotations
...annals of ancient and modern times may afford rich and interesting...Ancient nobility is the Act of Time. --FRANCIS BACON, "Of...quality one senses lurking in a time very different and distant...and second of daylight saving time, hour, minute, and second...of my choice, temperature, sidereal time, moon phase, time of...
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UFO Target Earth and How It Was Filmed
Magazine article by Jerry Crowder; American Cinematographer, Vol. 55, July 1974
...was no filmic time involved. Sidereal time and film time were the same. UFO: TARGET EARTH...to get good sound, and several times we had to blimp and blanket the...Packwood "in the bag" most of the time. We really feel that the advantages...
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Do We Really Want to Be Welsh?
Magazine article by Christopher Meredith; New Statesman, Vol. 128, May 3, 1999
Subjects: Decentralization in government--United Kingdom, Political reform--Wales, Referendum--Wales, United Kingdom--Politics and government, Wales--Politics and government
...conversion to turn the game by one point during injury time. No, it was more important than that. The historian...Merediths novels include "Shifts", "Griffri" and "Sidereal Time". He teaches at the University of Glamorgan
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The Coriolis Effect
Magazine article by William D. Stansfield; Skeptic, Vol. 15, 2009
...masses developed over extended time periods and over long distances...its apparent direction during one sidereal day (the time it takes for the Earth to complete...make one complete rotation in one sidereal day. Foucault pendulums are sometimes...
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newspaper articles on: Sidereal Time  - 14 results

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Time in the Sun; LETTERS
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), September 10, 2010
Time in the Sun; LETTERS. SOME...retention of British summer Time are inaccurate (letters...disorder is worsened at this time of year, but its wrong to suggest...hour in spring, making the sidereal midday actually occur at 1pm...
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Flight of the Aliens? ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), November 5, 2009
Subjects: Ryan, Leo J.
...26,000 years. So, the sidereal day is 0.008 seconds shorter...the Sun once a year, the sidereal time at any one place at midnight...after a year, one additional sidereal day has transpired compared...Its easy to calculate local time anywhere by using its longitude...meridians have different local times from each other. But for...
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The Highland Heroes
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), September 16, 2010
...crucial for ports to have a precise time signal as ships used on-board...determined time from the stars (sidereal time) using a telescope on the Observatory roof. A sidereal clock at the Observatory kept sidereal time, from which solar time...
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The Highland Heroes; ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), September 16, 2010
...crucial for ports to have a precise time signal as ships used on-board...determined time from the stars (sidereal time) using a telescope on the Observatory roof. A sidereal clock at the Observatory kept sidereal time, from which solar time...
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How to Make a Birth Chart
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, January 17, 2011
Subjects: Astronomy--Methods
...planets in the sky at the exact time and date you were born. Astrologists...like your name and the date, time and place of your birth on the...information like the day, year, time, and place you were born...method youll be calculating local sidereal time, house cusps, planetary...
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encyclopedia articles on: Sidereal Time  - 17 results

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Sidereal Time
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...its orbit about the sun, the sidereal day is about 4 min shorter than the solar day (see solar time ). Thus, a given star will...stars are visible at different times of the year. The local sidereal time of an observer is equal to...
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Sidereal Period
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SIDEREAL PERIOD in astronomy, length of time a body takes to complete an orbit relative to the fixed stars. See sidereal time . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia...
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Sidereal Day
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SIDEREAL DAY see sidereal time . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Sidereal Year
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SIDEREAL YEAR time required for the earth to complete an orbit of the sun relative to the stars. The sidereal year is 365 days, 6 hr, 9 min, 9...the equinoxes ; for this reason, the sidereal year does not stay in step with the seasons...
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Time , Sequential Arrangement of All Events
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...which is the basis of sidereal time . All sidereal days are equal...which is the basis for solar time . Because of the earths motion...is four minutes longer than the sidereal day. True solar time, as measured by a sundial, does...
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