sidereal time is related to the distant stars and allows you to keep track of astronomical events. From LearnThat.org.
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Adjective : sidereal time. From Dictionary.com.
It's called sidereal or Vedic astrology, and it's popular in India. From Wordnik.com. [Astrologers struggle with slippage between constellations, horoscope signs] Reference
The time which the earth occupies in making a complete rotation around this axis is called a sidereal day. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Heavens] Reference
As in connection with 1: 7 the idea of a kind of sidereal ocean had to be rejected as a purely fanciful notion of commentators, so here. From Wordnik.com. [Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1] Reference
We have now passed through one sidereal period of the moon. From Wordnik.com. [Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence] Reference
Further, the mean sidereal period of the moon is 2360591 seconds and the. From Wordnik.com. [Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence] Reference
Spirit might indicate, also, an astral or sidereal vehicle given to souls by the stars. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
The constancy of the sidereal revolutions inspired the conclusion as to their perpetuity. From Wordnik.com. [The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism] Reference
They use the fixed-star or sidereal zodiac, while the latter two use the tropical zodiac. From Wordnik.com. [Tibeto-Mongolian Astrology and Karma] Reference
A brief abstract from a journal of the weather for one sidereal period of the moon, in 1853. From Wordnik.com. [Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence] Reference
The sun is but a small potato in the midst of the countless systems of the sidereal heavens. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 39, January, 1861] Reference
The next is enlightened by the astral or magnetic light, and it is that of the sidereal body. From Wordnik.com. [The Life Radiant] Reference
It is scarcely, however, doubtful that law, and not chance, governs the sidereal revolutions. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891] Reference
Then, since the fire of the sidereal system has attained its goal, why does it not stay at rest?. From Wordnik.com. [The Six Enneads.] Reference
The sidereal myths superimposed themselves upon the agrarian myths, and gradually obliterated them. From Wordnik.com. [The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism] Reference
The sidereal character which has been attributed to the Syrian gods, was borrowed, but none the less real. From Wordnik.com. [The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism] Reference
The whole sky, though lit by the sidereal rays, seemed black by contrast with the whiteness of the waters. From Wordnik.com. [Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea] Reference
It is reserved for the practical genius of Americans to establish a communication with the sidereal world. From Wordnik.com. [From the Earth to the Moon] Reference
Antares is much further down in the sky, in relation to the arbitrary sidereal axis, and it's a deeper red. From Wordnik.com. [The Colors of Space] Reference
This is perhaps the utmost to be hoped for until sidereal astronomy has reached another stadium of progress. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891] Reference
Sense perception and reason are the cognitive organs of the physical body; imagination that of the sidereal body. From Wordnik.com. [METAPHYSICAL IMAGINATION] Reference
Two hundred and fifty years ago, certain new sidereal conceptions arose in the minds of half a dozen philosophers. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860] Reference
Their observations led them to discover the length, very nearly, of the sidereal year, which they made to consist of. From Wordnik.com. [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference
Chaldean astrology was that all phenomena and events of this world were necessarily determined by sidereal influence. From Wordnik.com. [The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism] Reference
Astronomers soared away from the little solar system, and began a minute search throughout the whole sidereal heavens. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 288, July 9, 1881] Reference
The knowledge possessed by astronomers in those days was but meagre compared with what is now known of the sidereal heavens. From Wordnik.com. [The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'] Reference
And so, in fact, the calendar year (also called the “tropical year”) is about 20 minutes shorter than the sidereal year. From Wordnik.com. [A Great Leap…Forward?] Reference
These sidereal monsters, to whom powerful qualities were ascribed, were likewise the remnants of a multitude of forgotten beliefs. From Wordnik.com. [The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism] Reference
Much that is mysterious and uncertain is associated with those objects which appear to lie far beyond the limits of our sidereal system. From Wordnik.com. [The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'] Reference
The action of the sky on the earth is undeniable, and, the sidereal influences once admitted, all previsions based on them are legitimate. From Wordnik.com. [The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism] Reference
The Earth accomplishes a revolution on its axis in 23 hours 56 minutes 4 seconds mean solar time, which is the length of the sidereal day. From Wordnik.com. [The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'] Reference
It was not until this truth became known that the glories of the sidereal heavens were fully comprehended, and their magnificence revealed. From Wordnik.com. [The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'] Reference
Thus the micrometer revealed to man the magnitude and general structure, together with the motions and revolutions of the sidereal heavens. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 288, July 9, 1881] Reference
The weapons used by the ecclesiastic writers in contending against this sidereal fatalism were taken from the arsenal of the old Greek dialectics. From Wordnik.com. [The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism] Reference
Arcturus is believed to be the most magnificent and massive orb entering into the structure of that portion of the sidereal system which comes within our cognisance. From Wordnik.com. [The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'] Reference
Bart's computers told him they were forging toward the sidereal location assigned for the first of the warp-drive shifts, which would take them some fifteen light-years toward. From Wordnik.com. [The Colors of Space] Reference
Beyond the confines of our solar system, little was known of the magnitude and extent of the sidereal universe which occupies the infinitude of space by which we are surrounded. From Wordnik.com. [The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'] Reference
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