sidereal day in English
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the time between two consecutive transits of the First Point of Aries. It represents the time taken by the earth to rotate on its axis relative to the stars, and is almost four minutes shorter than the solar day because of the earth's orbital motion.
These sessions were performed during two consecutive days but delayed by 4 minutes per day, since the satellite sky distribution is repeated with a period close to a sidereal day .
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1. Both the stellar day and the sidereal day are shorter than the mean solar day by about 3 minutes 56 seconds.