sidereal in English

adjective
1
of or with respect to the distant stars (i.e., the constellations or fixed stars, not the sun or planets).
Fixed stars continued to be used as reference points throughout the Middle Ages, and even Copernicus measured positions in a sidereal zodiac beginning from the fixed star Mesartim.

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1. A sidereal trip that takes me to infinity.

2. A sidereal trip that takes me to infinity

3. Our high-performance Apochromatic Refractor Telescope provides stellar viewing of sidereal objects

4. Astromental A reference to the sidereal, or star, influences on a person's thoughts and feelings

5. The first is the Cyrannus Centric Sidereal Astrogation System, commonly called the Colonial System or CS

6. Both the stellar day and the sidereal day are shorter than the mean solar day by about 3 minutes 56 seconds.

7. Babylonian astronomers knew of the equation of time and were correcting for it as well as the different rotation rate of the stars, sidereal time, to obtain a mean solar time much more accurate than their water clocks.