How To Use Solar day In A Sentence
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This is the most natural and the most accurate measure of time for the navigator at sea and the unit of time adopted by the mariner is the apparent solar day.
Lectures in Navigation
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A solar day is four minutes longers than a sidereal day.
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Calendar dates of events vary slightly because there is not an exact number of solar days in a year.
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A sidereal day is about 4 minutes shorter than a solar day.
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The duration of the nodical month is approximately 27.2122 mean solar days.