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1. At the solstices and the equinoxes, how does the rightascension of the Sun compare with the sidereal time at solar noon?Does this relationship hold on other days of the year?

2. On what day of the year is apparent solar time the same assidereal time? Explain why this would not happen on another day ofthe year.

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A Star time properly called sidereal time is the hour angle of the Vernal Equinox Because the Sun moves to the east along the ecliptic the Sun takes longer to make a circuit of the sky on its daily path than does a star or the equinox so the solar day is 4 minutes longer than the sidereal day As a result the sidereal clock gains 4 minutes actually 3 minutes 56 seconds per day over the solar clock starting from the time of solar    See Answer
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