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We live on a moving Earth and hence time and the positions of celestial bodies are intimately related. In this part of the course we will look at the most commonly used timekeeping systems and the relations between them:


                                        sidereal time

 solar time

 universal time

 the calendar


©Vik Dhillon, 30th September 2009