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“Sidereal” refers to motion with respect to “the fixed stars”; the stars are of course not really fixed, but they appear nearly so from Earth. Sidereal rotations are with respect to distant stars (those of the imaginary celestial sphere, which is essentially all of them; even the nearest ones have only very tiny apparent motions).
