Question

One fateful winter evening, Orion the Hunter was found to have just crossed the local meridian.

Given that Alnilam, the middle star of the 3 along the “Belt of Orion” has RA/DEC: 5h 36

min/ ́1

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2

, what is the local sidereal time at that instance?

Answer 1

$t_1=5^h36^m$

or

$t_2=17^h36^m.$