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Naked Eye Sidereal and Solar Day JS Model
written by Mario Belloni and Todd Timberlake
The Naked Eye Sidereal and Solar Day Javascript Model illustrates the difference between the sidereal and solar day. This simulation shows the view from the Earth as one would observe in the night sky. The sidereal day is the day according to the stars. It is the time it takes for a particular star to rotate around the Earth (from the Earth's perspetive) and end up in the same part of the sky as it started. On Earth, this time is 23 hours and 56 minutes. The unit of time called a solar day is the time it takes for the Sun to get back to the same place in the sky as it was before. On Earth, this time is 24 hours.

This simulation shows the difference between the sidereal and solar day by showing the motion of the stars (the zodiacal symbols) and the sun (orange). It uses an orange arrow to represent where Sun would be seen in the sky relative to the background stars. A particular star is denoted by a red arrow. Users can also add a visual of the Moon to see the difference between the sidereal month and the synodic month.

The Naked Eye Sidereal and Solar Day JS Model was developed using the Easy Java Simulations (EJS) version 5.  It is distributed as a ready-to-run html page and requires only a browser with JavaScript support.
1 source code document is available
Subjects Levels Resource Types
Astronomy
- Astronomy Education
= Curricula
- Fundamentals
= Night Sky
- Solar System
= The Moon
- The Sun
- Upper Undergraduate
- High School
- Lower Undergraduate
- Instructional Material
= Interactive Simulation
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- Learners
- Educators
- application/javascript
- application/zip
- text/html
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Free access
License:
This material is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No derivatives 3.0 license.
Rights Holder:
Mario Belloni and Todd Timberlake
Keywords:
EJSS, Earh, Moon, OpenSOurce Physics, Sun, day month, javascript, sidereal, solar, synodic, year
Record Cloner:
Metadata instance created September 2, 2013 by Mario Belloni
Record Updated:
November 12, 2021 by Lyle Barbato
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September 2, 2013
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M. Belloni and T. Timberlake, Computer Program NAKED EYE SIDEREAL AND SOLAR DAY JS MODEL, Version 1.0 (2013), WWW Document, (https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=12991&DocID=3565).
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M. Belloni and T. Timberlake, Computer Program NAKED EYE SIDEREAL AND SOLAR DAY JS MODEL, Version 1.0 (2013), <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=12991&DocID=3565>.
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Belloni, M., & Timberlake, T. (2013). Naked Eye Sidereal and Solar Day JS Model (Version 1.0) [Computer software]. Retrieved November 6, 2024, from https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=12991&DocID=3565
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Belloni, Mario, and Todd Timberlake. "Naked Eye Sidereal and Solar Day JS Model." Version 1.0. https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=12991&DocID=3565 (accessed 6 November 2024).
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Belloni, Mario, and Todd Timberlake. Naked Eye Sidereal and Solar Day JS Model. Vers. 1.0. Computer software. 2013. 6 Nov. 2024 <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=12991&DocID=3565>.
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@misc{ Author = "Mario Belloni and Todd Timberlake", Title = {Naked Eye Sidereal and Solar Day JS Model}, Month = {September}, Year = {2013} }
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The Naked Eye Sidereal and Solar Day JS Model is the Javascript version of the Naked Eye Sidereal and Solar Day Java simulation.

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