Hi Ernst,
How does one observe the Nakshatra Year since it is based on the revolution of the earth on its axis one time to make one Nakshatra day? Does one simply observe the stars from one point to the next point to calculate its day?
Or, does one observe a star (nakshatra) to rise on the horizon?
The other years are observational, except for the sidereal solar year of course.
scott
One of the biggest hallmarks for not using sidereal rasis is the simple fact that one cannot observe the Sun in relationship to stars due to daytime not allowing that to happen!
What is the difference then of the Nakshatra year and the sidereal solar year? Aren't they observed in a similar fashion? Sometimes the nakshatra year will also be called a sidereal year since they both imply/relate to stars in some form (atleast I have seen that).