Greenwich hour angle

noun

1. hour angle measured from the meridian of Greenwich, England.

Example Sentences

And now you notice that this angular measure is exactly the same as apparent time at Greenwich or Greenwich Apparent Time, for Greenwich Apparent Time is nothing more than the distance in time Greenwich, England, or the meridian at Greenwich is from the sun, i.e., the time it takes the earth to revolve from Greenwich to the sun; and that distance is exactly measured by the Greenwich Hour Angle or the arc on the celestial equator, GS.

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Then the angle at the pole GPS, measured by the arc GS would be the Hour Angle of Greenwich, or the Greenwich Hour Angle.

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