Sidereal Time on the Web

Historical Astronomical Clock

Some other places on the Web to explore Sidereal Time

Wikipedia has an extremely detailed page on the subject, with diagrams, formulas and relations to other time systems.

Chris Peat's Heavens Above website is a fantastic resource for not only exploring the night sky from any time or place on Earth, but tracking satellites, planets, and the Sun and Moon.

Peter Duffett-Smith's popular book Practical Astronomy with your Calculator is a standard work on algorithms for finding not only Sidereal Time, but lots of other calculations relating to the Sky and Earth's place in the universe.

Other Sidereal Time Calculators

The United States Naval Observatory has a Sidereal Time calculator where you can enter your longitude manually, or choose from a list of US cities and towns.

From Germany, here's a nice page of astronomical calculations for cities all over the world.

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