I immediately consulted the Sidereal clock, which indicated 0h 0m 30s, I think that the error in assuming the elapsed time as above cannot be supposed to amount to five seconds.
And whether I am angry or content, Indebted or insulted, loved or hurt, All he distils into sidereal wine And brims my little cup; heedless, alas!
After the straining mind has exhausted all its resources in attempting to fathom the distance of the smallest telescopic star, or the faintest nebula, it has reached only the visible confines of the sidereal creation.
It should be added, that Sir John Herschel considers the “nebular hypothesis” and the above theory of sidereal aggregation to stand quite independent of each other.
This is called the moon's sidereal period of revolution, because it is the time elapsed while she is traveling eastward from a given star around to coincidence with the same star again.
On both sides of this disk of stars, and clustered about the poles of the sidereal system are the regions occupied by vast numbers of nebulae.
Situated very nearly on the earth's equator, almost the entire sidereal heavens are visible from this single station, and all the planets are favored by circumzenith conditions when passing the meridian.
Hale, the director of the observatory, who gives a very clear idea of the trend of present-day research on the magnetic nature of the sun, and the structure and evolution of the sidereal universe.
Further, among the heavenly bodies exists a body, partly transparent and partly luminous, which we call the sidereal heaven.
In the course of his investigation of sidereal parallax, though without finding it, Herschel made an important discovery; that of the proper motion of our system.
To show distinctly the direction of the motion of the solar system, not only was a displacement of the sidereal perspective required, but profound mathematical knowledge, and a peculiar tact.
Astronomical Observations relating to the Sidereal Part of the Heavens, and its Connection with the Nebulous Part; arranged for the Purpose of a critical Examination.
The disturbing action of the sun and moon upon the terrestrial spheroid occasions a continual regression of the equinoctial points, and hence arises the distinction between the sidereal and tropical year.
In one of the earliest of Herschel's memoirs, we find, that the apparent sidereal diameters are proved to be for the greater part factitious, even when the best made telescopes are used.
But Herschel realized his most surprising results, and derives his greatest glory, from the observation of the sidereal heavens.
By comparing two successive years they could of course have got at a sidereal year; but this is what they did not do; hence the irregularity which produced the canicular cycle.
The outer or sidereal sphere of the Kosmos was made to receive the Same, or Identity, by being placed in an even and undivided rotation toward the right, turning on the great axis of the whole sphere.
He embarked in 1833 with his family for the Cape; and his work at Feldhausen, six miles from Cape Town, marked the beginning of southern sidereal astronomy.
As the event is supposed to happen at 3 in the afternoon, we must add the difference between noon and the time given to the Sidereal Time of the day.
According to some authors, he corresponds to the god of the twelve sidereal mansions.
His numerous and successful efforts in this line of work rendered him so conspicuous that he was conceded to be without a peer in the department of sidereal photography.
The sidereal chronometer has the hours graduated to XII.
In making chronometer comparisons the sidereal chronometer was left at the college and the mean time chronometer was carried to the instruments on which signals were to be received.
Parkinson & Frodsham, of London, England, and a sidereal chronometer, No.
An active microscopic universe as wonderful as the sidereal universe, the stellar structure, has been revealed.
But it was reserved to the practical genius of Americans to put itself into communication with the sidereal world.
Such was the frightful temperature ofsidereal space!
He longed for some unusual phenomenon in the sidereal tracts, a comet, or a temporary star, one of those strange wanderers that appear for a time, attain a brief and vivid maximum, and vanish into the darkness from which they have emerged.
The bishop opened the door with another key and threw the windows wide, disclosing a canvas-hooded telescope in the centre, chairs and tables bearing astronomical instruments, and sidereal maps upon the walls.
Other symptoms show the inhabitants of this region very susceptible to magnetic and sidereal influences.
That great sense of sidereal and imponderable influences, which afterward manifested itself so clearly in the Seherin, probably made this change of place very unfavorable to her.
O incontestable Abyss, What light in thine embrace of darkness sleeps-- What blaze of a sidereal multitude No peopled world is left to miss!
The pendulum was kept at the same length as at Greenwich, where the daily loss of the clock on sidereal time was 4".
The time which the earth occupies in making a complete rotation around this axis is called a sidereal day.
The sidereal heavens contain few more interesting objects for the telescope than can be found in the numerous class of double stars.
It thus appears that the permanence of the sidereal heavens, and the fixity of the constellations in their relative positions, are only ephemeral.
Around this pole the whole heavens appear to rotate once in a sidereal day; and we have hitherto always referred to the pole as though it were a fixed point in the heavens.
Each season of the year can thus be characterised by the sidereal objects that are conspicuous by night.
He supposed the stars of our sidereal system to be distributed in a vast stratum of inconsiderable thickness compared with its length and breadth.
Even a small telescope or an opera-glass directed to this teeming constellation cannot fail to delight the observer, and convey to him a profound impression of the extent of the sidereal heavens.
The nebular origin of the solar system receives considerable countenance from the study of the sidereal heavens.
Among the sidereal systems we find not a few cases where the problem of three bodies, or even of more than three, would have to be faced without any of the alleviating circumstances which our system presents.
In order to ascertain when the earth has performed an entire revolution in its orbit, we must observe when the sun returns in conjunction with any fixed star; and this is called a sidereal year.
When time is calculated by the stars it is calledsidereal time; when by the sun, solar, or apparent time.
What difference is there in the length of the solar and sidereal year?
I must also explain to you what is meant by a sidereal year.
Then a sidereal day is three minutes fifty-six seconds shorter, than a solar day of twenty-four hours.
In a very different spirit did the Aristotelians receive the "Sidereal Messenger" of Galileo.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sidereal" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
