local mean sidereal time

English

Noun

local mean sidereal time (countable and uncountable, plural local mean sidereal times)

  1. (astronomy, time) A time scale indicating the immediate position of an observer relative to the stars, calculated by adding the longitude of the observer, measured east of Greenwich, to Greenwich sidereal time (GMST).
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