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25: 480: 504: 456: 492: 468: 199:. Because Earth orbits the Sun once a year, the sidereal time at any given place and time will gain about four minutes against local civil time, every 24 hours, until, after a year has passed, one additional sidereal "day" has elapsed compared to the number of solar days that have gone by. 281:
are on the horizon due north and south, and the motion is counterclockwise (i.e. leftward) around Polaris and clockwise (i.e. rightward) around Sigma Octantis. All motion is westward, except for the two fixed points.
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do not apply to diurnal motion. Within the circumpolar circle, all the stars move simply rightward, or looking directly overhead, counterclockwise around the
270:, sometimes called the south pole star. The circumpolar stars move clockwise around Sigma Octantis. East and west are not interchanged. 370:. The apparent motion of stars near the celestial pole seems slower than that of stars closer to the celestial equator. Conversely, 108: 42: 89: 46: 61: 263: 208: 446: 68: 529: 35: 375: 75: 311: 399: 57: 363: 310:. Thus, the speed of the diurnal motion of a celestial object equals this cosine times 15° per hour, 15 349: 524: 508: 404: 295: 169: 149: 496: 484: 253: 322: 460: 379: 326: 318: 299: 230: 196: 173: 145: 82: 383: 424: 291: 278: 267: 177: 165: 133: 125: 518: 472: 192: 191:
The time for one complete rotation is 23 hours, 56 minutes, and 4.09 seconds – one
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observers are to replace north with south, left with right, and Polaris with
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the diurnal motion with the camera to eliminate its arcing effect on a
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may have a sidereal motor drive to do that automatically.
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