Sentence examples for mean solar time from inspiring English sources

Local mean solar time depends upon longitude; it is advanced by four minutes per degree eastward.

In practice, mean solar time is not obtained from observations of the Sun.

This development led to mean solar time as the norm; it is defined below.

It gave mean solar time, mean sidereal time, equation of time, and could chart the phases of the moon.

The mean solar time at Greenwich is now called Universal Time and was formerly called Greenwich Mean Time.

Mean solar time is 12 hours plus the hour angle of the centre of the fictitious mean Sun.

The Getty exhibits a planisphere clock, demonstrating mean time and solar time in cities around the globe, as well as the timing of the tides in northern ports.

Its namesake complication, the equation of time, reconciles the difference between clock time (mean time) and sundial time (solar time), which arises because of the slight eccentricity of the Earth's orbit and its tilted axis.

The four dates on which apparent solar time and mean time coincide are April 15, June 13 , September 1and December 25. 12.

(As a side fact, note that the mean solar day is different from the time taken for Earth to rotate once around itself).

The bottom 25th percentile and the median of the daily mean solar radiation were high for the time of year, but the upper 75th percentile was not unusual.