Apparent Solar Time

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Nov 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000eaa..booke4883.&link_type=abstract

"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 4883. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Coordinates, Time, And Motion, Positional Concepts

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Time reckoned by the apparent position of the Sun in the sky. The local apparent solar time (or local apparent time) is defined to be the local hour angle of the Sun (the angle between the observer's meridian and the Sun, measured westwards from the meridian) plus 12 hours. Thus, when the Sun is crossing the meridian at noon, its hour angle is zero, and the local apparent solar time is 0 h+12 h=1...

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