Sentences with phrase «sidereal time»

William Leavitt's Sidereal Time, 2014, featured a curtain rod held up by a birch tree, a pile of large stones, a classical column, and a light rod.

The requirements of specialized machines drove a proliferation of timescales customized to each user: Universal time, sidereal time, ephemeris time, barycentric time, and terrestrial time are just a few examples.

We pretend that romantic comedies or naturalistic thrillers set in the present day are more «realistic» than any that require us to remember that we live between immensities, for no more than a fraction of sidereal time in a world that we did not make.

Called sidereal time, the measurement calculates the length of a day by comparing the earth's rotation to the stars.

If sidereal time is something you care about, the ultra-lux watchmakers at Vacheron Constantin have something for you.

Not exact matches

So we may assume that sporadically, in the course of time, numerous centers of indeterminacy and consciousness can and must have appeared in sidereal space, of which our own Earth is one.

In terms of Time its whole planetary duration is no more than a flash in the huge course of sidereal development.

The time taken by the sun to return to the same fixed star is called the Sidereal year, and consists of 365.2563612 solar days (or 365 days 6 hours 9 minutes 9.6 seconds).

A sidereal day — a day by the stars — is the time needed for a star to return to the same spot in the sky.

So the periodic variation in the sidereal day length (not solar) is several hundred times LESS than the time a single frame appears in a movie.