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This figure appears to confuse arcsec and arcmin (`` and `) with seconds of time and minutes of time. These are not the same. In fact, at the equator, they differ by a factor of 15. A sideral day is 23h56m04s, not 23h56`04`` and those two are not the same thing.


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This image needs a correction. The third image on the right, of the yellow Sun with reference orange dot, marked 12:00:00, ought to match the first image, also marked 12:00:00. Can someone fix it?

I'm pretty sure that's not true. The point is that while 1 solar day has passed (thus the sun is dead ahead) the star has stayed relatively "still", so that the star and the sun do not line up the next "day"
Riventree (talk) 08:16, 14 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]