What is 0a in Sidereal Years?

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What is 0 Years (0a) in Sidereal Years (a-sr)?

What is 0a in a-sr? Convert 0 Years (0a) to Sidereal Years (a-sr) and show formula, brief history on the units and quick maths for the conversion.

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Quick Reference for Converting Years to Sidereal Years

Formula
a-sr = a / 1
Quick Rough Maths
Sidereal Years and Years are approximately equal
Years (a) in 1 Sidereal Year
There are 1 Years in 1 Sidereal Year
Sidereal Years (a-sr) in 1 Year
There are 1 Sidereal Years in 1 Year

Unit Information

Year
/jɪə,jəː/
Symbol: a
Unit System: SI

What is the Year?

The year is a unit of time that is a multiple of an SI unit and uses the symbol a.

The Julian year is made up of exactly 365.25 days – each with 60 x 60 x 24 seconds (86,400 seconds). The .25 days is worked into the system by counting 366 days once every 4 cycles. This is known as a “leap year” and the “leap day” happens at the end of February.

The term year represents the length of time it takes for the earth to complete one full cycle around the sun. Each planet therefore has a different year length.

To track years, humanity has assigned an incremental numbering system. Depending on which culture, religion or part of the world you are from or follow, this number varies. The most common numbering system suggests we are in the 21st century – i.e. in the 2000’s. This system started 0 AD (Anno Domini – which translates from Latin as “In the year of our Lord”). Time before this is referred to as BC (before Christ) and the number increases as you go further into history (like a negative number would).

Sidereal Year
/sʌɪˈdɪərɪəl jɪə,jəː/
Symbol: a-sr
Unit System: SI

What is the Sidereal Year?

The sidereal year is a unit of time that is a multiple of an SI unit. We have used the symbol a-sr.

From the Latin ‘sidus’ for ‘star’, sidereal is a term used to describe the orbital time of the earth or an object to complete one full cycle with respect to a fixed, distant star or constellation pattern.

The sidereal year is defined as 365.242 190 402 days of 86,400 SI seconds. This is 20 minutes and 24.5 seconds longer than a tropical year.


Conversion Tables for Years (a) to Sidereal Years (a-sr)