Bugarin, John Kenaz A.

BSMT -III Delta

Assessment
2M FRANKLIN P. VICENTE
Instructor
Directions. Answer the following questions. Write your answer below the question as provided.
Save in soft copy and produce 1 hard copy to be submitted for next pick-up of your next
modules (USB).

Exercise 1: 1. Give the three fundamentals kinds of time and define.

a. Sidereal time –
Time defined by the daily rotation of the earth with respect to the equinox or first point of Aries. The
sidereal time is numerically measured by the hour angle of the equinox, which represents the position of
the equinox on daily rotation.

b. Apparent sidereal time –

The true equinox is at the intersection of the true celestial equator of date with the ecliptic of date; the
time measured by its daily rotation. The position of the true equinox is affected by the nutation of the
axis of rotation of the earth; and the nutation consequently introduces irregular periodic inequalities
into the apparent sidereal time and the length of the sidereal day.

c. Mean sidereal time – The time measured by the daily motion of the mean equinox of date, which is
affected only by the secular inequalities due to the precession of the axis. Mean sidereal time is deduced
from apparent sidereal time by applying the equation of equinoxes.

2. The apparent positions of the stars are commonly reckoned with reference to an imaginary called the
vernal equinox.

3. The period of the earth’s rotation measured with respect to the vernal equinox is called a
sidereal day.

4. The period with respect to the sun is called an sidereal.

5. What is the other term for Ephemeris Time (ET)? Dynamic time.
Exercise 2: Draw the following in another sheet.

1.Draw the “Apparent eastward movement of the sun with respect to the stars”.

2. Draw the “Apparent orbit of the sun about the earth”.