Apparent solar time is the hour angle of the Sun plus 12 hours: a sundial shows it, and it is noon when the Sun crosses the meridian. Mean solar time is the hour angle, plus 12 hours, of a fictitious mean Sun that moves along the celestial equator at a uniform rate, completing a turn in a tropical year. Their difference, apparent minus mean, is the equation of time.
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什么是 Solar time?
又称: apparent solar time · mean solar time · equation of time