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Midnight

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Midnight 

the moment at which, for a given point on earth, the center of the sun (the true sun or the mean sun) is in the lower culmination. The apparent midnight corresponds to a meridian transit by the true sun, while the mean midnight corresponds to a transit by the mean sun. The time at which midnight occurs depends on the geographic longitude. Midnight begins one hour later for every 15° of longitude to the west. All data in astronomical almanacs are calculated for mean midnight at the Greenwich meridian, from which universal time is figured.
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At midnight we'll start out again, for at dawn tomorrow we must be at the Field of Wonders.
The Adventures Of Pinocchio by Collodi, Carlo View in context
Toward midnight the Crusader came floating down the river in a boat, with his trusty cross-bow in his hands.
A Tramp Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context
Doubtless the good man has spent many a studious hour in this old chair, either penning a sermon or reading some abstruse book of theology, till midnight came upon him unawares.
Grandfather's Chair by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
 
 
 
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