They have found that in every millennium the lastsiderealday is approximately one-thousandth of a second longer than the first.
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We divide this unit of time - the so-calledsiderealday - into 24 hours, the hour into 60 minutes, the minute into 60 seconds.
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Should we really consider two corresponding sections of the same scale as exactly equal to one another: twosiderealdays, for example, as exactly equal intervals of time?
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It also fixed the number of days in each month, which previously varied by year with thesiderealzodiac.
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This approach has no effect upon those astrologers that utilize twelve equal sized ages based on thesiderealzodiac.
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This is because thesiderealzodiac is superimposed upon the irregular zodiacal constellation, and there are no unambiguous boundaries of the zodiacal constellations.
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Moon is said to have 27 (not 28) wives with whom he stays for one day in asidereallunar month.
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It is 27.32158 days, very slightly shorter than thesiderealmonth (27.32166) days, because of precession of the equinoxes.
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The true position of these stars is only approximate to their theoretical equidistant rhumbs on thesiderealcompass.
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Although there are 28 days to asiderealmonth, by custom only 27 days are used, the last 28th day being considered unlucky.
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A mean solar day is, therefore, nearly 4 minutes longer than asiderealday.
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By convention, rotation periods of planets are given insiderealterms unless otherwise specified.
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The satellite traces the same analemma once eachsiderealday.
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The exact length has been variously defined either that of a solar day or of asiderealday.
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Such an orbit relative to the stars is called asiderealyear.
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