Julian year (astronomy)
This article is about the time interval used in astronomy.
For years in the Julian calendar, see Julian calendar.
Julian Year
The average Julian year is defined to be 365.25 days long.
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Julian Year
A period of 365.25 days. This period served as the basis for the Julian calendar.
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Julian year. Exactly 365.25 days, in which a century (100 years) is exactly 36525 days and in which 1900.0 corresponds exactly to 1900 January 0.5 (from the Julian-date system, which is half a day different from civil time or UT).
88 Julian years, Neptune will soon return (for the first time since its discovery) to the same position in the sky where it was discovered in 1846.
However, the Julian year still differs from the true year of 365.242199 days by 11 minutes and 14 seconds each year, and over a period of 128 years even the Julian Calendar was in error by one day with respect to the seasons.
Before 1984, the tropical year (not the Julian year) and a measured (not defined) speed of light were included in the IAU (1964) System of Astronomical Constants, used from 1968 to 1983.[5] The product of Simon Newcomb's J1900.
First, the positions of the south and north celestial poles appear to move in circles against the space-fixed backdrop of stars, completing one circuit in 25,772 Julian years (2000 rate).
The relation between integral numbers of months and years expressed by Meton's rule therefore deviates only two hours from the truth. Since 19 Julian years make 6939 days, 18 hours, the relation errs by only I. 5 hour when the Julian year is taken.
Worse, the reckoned Moon that was used to compute Easter was fixed to the Julian year by a 19-year cycle. However, that is an approximation that built up an error of 1 day every 310 years.
2 π r1 = 938,952,000 km
and assuming a Julian year of 365.25 days of 86400 seconds each gives
V0 = 939,952,000 / [(365.25)(86400)] = 29.785 km/s (Rather than 30 km/s) V02 = 887.163 (km/s)2 k = 1.32818 1011 ...
0, which refers to the mean equator and equinox of year 2000, nominally January 1st 12:00 hours Universal Time (UT). The "J" means Julian year, which is 365.25 days long.
Since 1984 standard epochs have been defined by the Julian year rather that the Besselian year. For distinction, the beginning of the Besselian year is now identified by the prefix B (e.g., B1950.0). [S92]
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-- Gregorian year, Julian year. See under Gregorian, and Julian. -- Leap year. See Leap year, in the Vocabulary. -- Lunar astronomical year, the period of 12 lunar synodical months, or 354 days, 8 hours, 48 minutes, 36 seconds. -- Lunisolar year.
Computus is the calculation of the date of Easter in the Christian calendar. The name has been used for this procedure since the early Middle Ages, as it was one of the most important computations of the age....
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This is the version of the year used in normal calendars and has a length of 365.24219 days. Other versions of a year (e.g. the sidereal, anomalistic and Julian years) have differences of about a hundredth of a day to this figure.
 See also: Year, Earth, Period, Sun, Orbit
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